From the Feb. 23, 2009, San Francisco Chronicle.
Camp Tule Lake was the internment camp where 18,000 Japanese-Americans from the west coast were interned along with 800 German officers and 150 Italian POWs spent the war years here. It was named a National Park in December. The Tule Lake Segregation Center and Visitors Center also has a website now, even though not much remains of the camp.
Most of the 7,400 acre site was demolished after the war. There are a few Caltrans California Transportation Department) warehouses, a concrete foundation of a latrine and a cross on a hill.
Plans are to restore Camp Thule. It was built in 1937 as CCC barracks. After the war, it was used as a government sign shop before being abandoned entirely in 1974.
Inmates slept at the camp, but spent the day hours working at local farms.
I'm glad to see this aspect of American history being acknowledged and preserved.
Not Pretty, But a Part of Our History. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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