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On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, allowing the establishment of military areas encompassing most of the West Coast of the U.S., âfrom which any or all persons may be excluded.â This paved the way for the legal removal of anyone of Japanese ancestry from these areas, because the government feared they might support Japan during World War II. It also allowed for the legal relocation of these people to what most Americans know as internment camps.
On Aug. 11, 1942, the first evacuees arrived at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center between Cody and Powell. Nearly 14,000 individuals from California, Oregon, Washington and Arizona were eventually forced to leave their homes for Heart Mountain, which became the fourth-largest relocation center in the U.S. and, at its peak, Wyomingâs third most populated city.