Cover Page

Table of Contents

Abstract

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Essay

Brief History

Gila River

Granada

Heart Mountain

Jerome

Manzanar

Minidoka

Poston

Rohwer

Topaz

Tule Lake

Isolation Centers

Add'l Facilities

Assembly Centers

DoJ and US Army Facilities

Prisons

References

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites by J. Burton, M. Farrell, F. Lord, and R. Lord

Chapter 4 (continued)
Gila River Relocation Center

Butte Camp
Evacuee Residential Area

Concrete slab foundations of the latrines, laundry rooms, and storage room are still present, although broken up with the cast iron pipes removed. Unlike Canal Camp, the mess halls at Butte Camp had concrete slab foundations. These foundations have been broken up to remove the pipe below and some (in Blocks 30-31, 72, and 73) have been completely broken up and placed in piles. An interesting feature of the mess hall foundations are door thresholds molded into the concrete slabs (Figures 4.76 and 4.77).

Figure 4.81. Evacluee landscaping at Butte Camp.

Concrete cisterns remain in each block, as do footing piers for barracks and some depressions from basements. There are remains of numerous evacuee-improvements around the former barracks, including concrete entries, gravel and concrete walkways, elaborate rock-outlined gardens, including two with saguaros (Figures 4.78-4.84). Very few inscriptions in the concrete are present (Table 4.2, Figure 4.85 and 4.86).

There are fewer, but generally larger, ponds at Butte Camp than at Canal Camp (Figures 4.87-4.90). Most are in the western portion of the residential area with the greatest number in Block 61, which also has the largest pond at the relocation center. In general, there appears to have been less concrete and more native rock used in the Butte Camp ponds than those at Canal Camp. This is not surprising since abundant rock is readily available from the hillsides adjacent to Butte Camp.

Table 4.2. Inscriptions at Butte Camp.

RH 44	High School
RALPH OSADA X ROSIE	High School step
HOME SWEET HOME June 12, 1944	Block 63 entry
74-1-C	Block 74 entry
May 19, 19..	Block 72 garden

Photo Album

Continued

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