About the Tule Lake Relocation Center

Information about the Tule Lake Relocation Center - also known as the Tule Lake Japanese-American Internment Camp - in Modoc County, Northern California. The former camp is located in the Klamath Falls Basin across the road form the Lava Beds Natiohnal Monument and the site of the Modoc War if 1872-1973.

Facts About the Tule Lake Relocation Center
PEAK POPULATION: More than 18,700 in 1944
INDUSTRIES: Bakery and Cabinet Shop
DATE OPENED: May 27, 1942
DATE CLOSED: March 20, 1946
SIZE: About 26,000 acres
National Historic Landmark and Place: #06000210
California Historial Landmark: #850-2

NPS "Tule Lake Unit" Article
Information about the Tule Lake Unit of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument. The historic site includes a Civil Conservation Corp camp a prisoner of war camp, and a site where Japanese-Americans were incarcerated during World War II

Wikipedia "Tule Lake Unit" Article
Article with information about the history of the Tule Lake Segrgation Center, notable inmates, fiction and non-fiction books and films about the center, and other resources.

Tule Lake Committee
Organization established to lead an effort to block proposed fencing on the site of the former Tule Lake Segregation Center. The proposal included bui8lding an eight foot high, three mile long fence around the historic site.

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