Minidoka National Historic Site - Minidoka Internment National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)

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Minidoka National Historic Site

A Pearl Harbor attack intensified hostility towards Japanese Americans. As wartime hysteria mounted, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 making over 120,000 West Coast persons of Japanese ancestry (Nikkei) leave their homes, jobs, and lives behind and move to one of ten Relocation Centers. This single largest forced relocation in U.S. history is Minidoka’s story.

Minidoka Display

Currently Minidoka National Historic Site does not offer any visitor services at the Site. Minidoka is currently managed out of Hagerman Fossil Beds NM.

There is a Minidoka display located at the Visitor Center that includes historic and modern pictures, information, literature, and brochures.

Seeking Historical Barracks

The National Park Service is searching for surviving barracks from the Minidoka Internment Center, or Hunt Camp, for information and possible relocation and display at the Minidoka National Historic Site.

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Dedication of the flag pole at the Stafford Elementary School.

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Want to learn more about the internment experience? This story has so much to teach us and there are many sources available to visit.

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Eagledale Ferry Dock, Bainbridge Island,WA

Nidoto Nai Yoni Memorial

May 8, 2008 President Bush signed into law designating the Nidoto Nai Yoni (Let it not happen again) Memorial, located on Bainbridge Island, WA a unit of Minidoka National Historic Site.

On March 30, 1942, history was made when 227 men, women and children of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of them American citizens, were escorted by armed U.S. Army soldiers and solemnly walked down to the Eagledale ferry landing. Only allowed to bring two suitcases with them, they boarded the ferry and said their goodbyes to their small island home. Once everyone was on board, the ferry departed on a lonely journey with an unknown destination and fate.
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P.O. Box 570
Hagerman, ID 83332

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Phone

Visitor Center
(208) 837-4793 ext. 5227

Fax

(208) 837-4857

Climate

Spring: Avg. High 62, Avg. Low 34; frequently windy; occasional rain or snow.

Summer: Avg. High 87, Avg. Low 51; can be in excess of 100 degrees and windy.

Fall: Avg. High 65, Avg. Low 36; temperature changes quickly and can become very windy.

Winter: Avg. Hi 39, Avg. Low 21, can get below 0; frequently windy, occasional snow.
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