Amache National Historic Site in southeastern Colorado is officially America’s newest national park, the National Park Service announced Thursday.
The sun sets behind a replica of the old guard tower at The Amache National Historic Site on November 14, 2022 in Granada, Colorado. For Japanese Americans imprisoned at Amache internment camp, lifetimes of silence and undeserved shame
Nearly two years ago in March 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law a bill backed by Colorado lawmakers toBefore becoming a National Historic Site, Amache was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on May 18, 1994, and designated a National Historic Landmark on February 10, 2006. More than 10,000 people were incarcerated at Amache between 1942 and 1945, according to the release. Now, Amache joins six other national parks already established to preserve this chapter of American history.Biden elevates Colorado’s Amache Japanese-American prison camp as federal historic site
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