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Camp Amache-Granada Relocation Center (Recreation Building – Block 11F)

Prowers County

Executive Order 9066 created the Granada Relocation Center (Amache) to incarcerate Japanese Americans during World War II.

After the war, Camp Amache was dismantled and the Recreation Building located on Block 11F was purchased by the Town of Granada and moved to the town proper. A grant from the National Park Service is being used to complete construction documents for the original concrete footing restoration and mothballing, and for moving the building back to its original location at the Internment site. This SHF grant will be used to complete construction documents to restore the building once it has been returned to the original, existing concrete footing at the site. It will also include the footing restoration and the mothballing of the building. The History Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation has agreed to facilitate the building’s nomination to the National Register District once it has been moved.

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Camp Amache Granada Relocation Center.

Camp Amache Granada Relocation Center

Photo by S.W. & J.S. Aber for History Colorado, 2007.