A group in Lakewood wants the National Park Service to highlight local World War ll connections, from artillery manufacturing to internment camps.
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“I was, like, would it be crazy to say the one I'm on the commission for would be a good one?” Gullett remembers thinking. The more she thought about it, however, the more she was convinced that a tandem of Denver and Lakewood would show the"story being told here."Gullett’s idea is to focus a World War II Heritage bid on the history of Japanese-American internment in Denver.
Nominations for this year close at the end of May, so Gullett's Lakewood group is targeting 2025 to apply. Part of that work will be collaboration among two different city staffs. The designation doesn’t earn cities additional federal funding, but it is a rare honor — there are currently just thirty World War II Heritage Cities— and a way to showcase a city's history.
If Denver were to be part of the application, the Rocky Mountain Arsenal would be another site for discussion, as it was a U.S. Army chemical manufacturing facility during World War II and is now a designated national park. Denver was home to a handful of manufacturingAdditionally, Lakewood’s William F. Hayden Green Mountain Park served as an artillery range during World War II.
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