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| Landmark #934-9 | Stanislaus County | Visited: June 27, 2015 | Plaque? YES! 🙂 |
| What is it? | There is a monument somewhere in the Stanislaus County Fairgrounds, but they were not open when I visited! |
| What makes it historical? | THE GUIDE SAYS: The temporary detention camps (also known as “assembly centers”) represent the first phase of the mass incarceration of 97,785 Californians of Japanese ancestry during World War II. Pursuant to Executive Order 9066 signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, thirteen makeshift detention facilities were constructed at various California racetracks, fairgrounds, and labor camps. These facilities were intended to confine Japanese Americans until more permanent concentration camps, such as those at Manzanar and Tule Lake in California, could be built in isolated areas of the country. Beginning on March 30, 1942, all native-born Americans and long-time legal residents of Japanese ancestry living in California were ordered to surrender themselves for detention.
OTHER TIDBITS: This assembly center was open from April 30th until August 12th, 1942 and housed 3,692 people at its height! This process was made possible by volunteer effort from the entire community of Turlock, which would normally make me proud, if they hadn’t been working together to wrongfully imprison so many people! |
| How can I Help the Helpers? | HERE’S HOW:
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| Where is this place? | LISTED DIRECTIONS: Stanislaus County Fairgrounds Turlock, CA 95380 ANNOTATIONS: From Los Angeles: ~302mi (487km) — 5.1hrs |
| When should I go? | The fairground offices are open weekdays from 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM! During the fair, the grounds are open weekdays from 5:00 PM to midnight and on weekends from 12:00 PM to midnight! |