Minidoka

I have always wanted to go to the Minidoka Internment Camps that was right outside of  Twin. It is so super amazing to see a part of history that happened so close to home.

This is the Honor Roll of all of the Camp Members that fought in the war. I was crazy sad to think of what happened to these Americans that didn't do anything. There is a lot of stuff to see and read.

This is the baseball diamond that they played on. Thye loved baseball there. 

Minidoka was self-sustainable. The Japanese Americans there cleared land and built farms. They made the rough desert into living farms. And then when the war was over what happened to the land and people, they were given $25 and a ticket home. They weren't allowed to stay. The land they cleared when into a lottery that gave precedence to veterans where they got 40 acres and two buildings. 

I like this picture because it shows that it is in the middle of the night.

This is a reconstruction of the guard tower.

This is part of the baseball field that the prisoners would behind.

Here are some of the buildings.

This one is about how they cleared the desert to make farmland.