4 Congressmen Join Colorado Teacher And Students To Make Camp Amache, A Japanese Internment Camp, A National Historic Site

By Shaun Boyd, CBS Denver:

GRANADA, Colo. (CBS4) – More than 70 years after an internment camp in Colorado for Japanese people closed, it could become a national historic site and part of the National Park System.

On a lonely dirt road east of Lamar, amid sagebrush and tumbleweeds, you find what is left of the Granada War Relocation Center, or Camp Amache as it became known to about 7,500 Japanese Americans in the 1940s.

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