A wooden guard tower with glass windows stands near a long, brown barracks building—reminders of the Japanese American farms that once dotted this dry, grassy landscape under a clear sky.
Replicas of a guard tower and barracks at the Amache Relocation Center near Granada, Colo. are shown in this Feb. 3, 2021 photo. The internment camp held 7,000 Japanese-Americans prisoner between 1942-1945. (Mike Sweeney, Special to The Colorado Sun)

The Granada Relocation Center — better known as Camp Amache — was built to house Japanese and Japanese Americans from the West Coast during World War II. The site was chosen for its remote location, about 15 miles west of the Kansas border.

The first group of people arrived in August 1942 to build barracks and clear fields. By the time it closed in October 1945, more than 10,000 Japanese Americans were detained there.

Amache is one of the most intact examples of a World War II incarceration site — including a historic cemetery, concrete building foundations, roads and several rehabilitated structures from the camp era.

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