![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first Japanese Americans arrived at Manzanar in March of 1942, just one month after President Franklin D. The Manzanar National Historic Site, which preserves and interprets the legacy of Japanese American incarceration in the United States, was identified by the United States National Park Service as the best-preserved of the ten former camp sites. Manzanar means "apple orchard" in Spanish. It is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California's Owens Valley, between the towns of Lone Pine to the south and Independence to the north, approximately 230 miles (370 km) north of Los Angeles. The smallest was Amanche, located southeastern Colorado, with over 7,000 inmates. The largest was the Tule Lake internment camp, located in northern California with a population of over 18,000 inmates. Although it had over 10,000 inmates at its peak, it was one of the smaller internment camps. ![]() Manzanar is the site of one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II from March 1942 to November 1945. ![]()
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