The National Park Service has announced that it has awarded 23 grants totaling $2,925,000 to help preserve the historic sites where about 120,000 Japanese-Americans were detained during World War II.
In Colorado, the Park Service announced three grants totaling $92,400 for the Granada Relocation Center, also known as Amache, an internment camp in southeastern Colorado where 7,597 Japanese-Americans were forced to move during the war.
In 2006, then-Interior Secretary Gale Norton designated the Amache site as a National Historic Landmark.
Camp Amache was the smallest of the 10 relocation centers in the United States and is near Granada.
The three grants for the Granada Relocation Center include two grants to Colorado Preservation Inc. and one to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Howard Pankratz, The Denver Post
