Governor Polis Calls for National Park Designation of Amache Site : The Prowers Journal theprowersjournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theprowersjournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
DENVER The National Park Service (NPS) is extending the comment period for the Amache Special Resource Study to June 30, 2021, and invites the public to participate in three additional virtual (online) meetings. The NPS is conducting this study to determine whether Amache should be considered for inclusion as a unit of the national park system.
Amache was one of 10 incarceration sites operated by the War Relocation Authority under the Department of the Interior during World War II. Japanese Americans and legal residents of Japanese ancestry were incarcerated at Amache, located just outside of the town of Granada, Colorado near the Arkansas River. Over 10,000 people were incarcerated at Amache, with a peak population of over 7,300 people, two-thirds of whom were American citizens.