Camp Amache, a Colorado center where thousands of Japanese-Americans were held in the 1940s during World War II, officially became a national park site Thursday.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland formally established the Amache National Historic Site, acting after the National Park Service acquired the site through a donation by the small town of Granada.
Amache National Historic Site
The camp, also known as the Granada Relocation Center, was one of 10 incarceration sites established by the War Relocation Authority to detain Japanese-Americans who were forcibly removed from the West Coast during World War II under an executive order signed by then-President Franklin Roosevelt.
Haaland’s action came nearly two years after President Joe Biden signed a bill designating the site as the first new national historic site of his administration.
