Granada, Co by Edwin Aguilar https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi Edwin, Ricardo, Brandon, Jorge en-us 2017-03-15 20:28:52 UTC 2025-11-08 16:32:29 UTC hello@padlet.com 331615 https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160373442 Opened May 18, 1942 
-59 acres
7,000 applicants 
all made it in.

]]> 2017-03-15 20:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160373442 Who? 418091 https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160374385 over 7,000 Japanese, most being American citizens, were forcibly imprisoned at the Granada Relocation Center in Granada, Colorado from 1942-45.]]> 2017-03-15 20:39:48 UTC https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160374385 Most of the work in Granada was directed at agricultural production, residential areas were devoted to farming and raising livestock. 331615 https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160374519 2017-03-15 20:40:38 UTC https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160374519 What? 418091 https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160374604 The Granada site, with the smallest population of the ten relocation centers, became the tenth largest concentration of people in the state of Colorado; it is one the best preserved with intact foundations and little alteration by subsequent development. ]]> 2017-03-15 20:41:04 UTC https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160374604 School? 418091 https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160421004 When the schools were first started in the barracks, the conditions were poor. Students did not have desks or textbooks. They sat on wooden benches and copied information that teachers put on the chalkboard. School supplies were limited. ]]> 2017-03-16 03:58:58 UTC https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160421004 Agriculture? 418091 https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160421133 main industry of the Granada Relocation Project was agriculture. The prime objective was to grow enough vegetables and produce enough meat to become self sufficient in meeting the food needs of the inmates. The farm and meat production operations were highly successful despite the continual shortage of inmate farm labor. ]]> 2017-03-16 04:01:43 UTC https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160421133 When ? 434186 https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160651850 People were moved to Granada, Colorado in August 27, 1942 following the attack on Pearl Harbor ]]> 2017-03-16 19:56:50 UTC https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160651850 Why ? 434186 https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160653119 Japanese and Japanese-Americans were moved to internemtn camps just like this one because teh American people thought they were spying on us ]]> 2017-03-16 20:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160653119 What did the people do during their time there ? 434186 https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160653653 Most adults in the camp either worked as police, fire fighters, on projects or on agriculture during the camp. Most kids invented there own little games and played with the other children in the camps . ]]> 2017-03-16 20:06:38 UTC https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160653653 How many Peoplewere in the camp 324780 https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160654284 120,000 Japanese Americans and those of Japanese ancestry to move ]]> 2017-03-16 20:10:55 UTC https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160654284 Who bought the land 324780 https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160654711 Land for the relocation center was acquired by the U.S. Army through a mix of purchase from private owners and condemnation]]> 2017-03-16 20:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160654711 How big was the Land 324780 https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160654992 Camp Amache covered approximately 10,500 acres south of the Arkansas River, and extended three miles west and four miles east of the small town of Granada, Colorado.]]> 2017-03-16 20:14:53 UTC https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160654992 What did they have in the camp 324780 https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160655241 Each block had a mess hall, laundry, toilets, and a shower room. There were also shared administrative facilities such as a hospital, school, recreation buildings, a public library, dry goods store, barber shop, sewage plant, and post office]]> 2017-03-16 20:16:27 UTC https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160655241 For Fun They produced a newspaper, the Granada Pioneer, which featured the worked of detainee cartoonist Chris Ishii. They tried farming, held Christmas block parties and even formed a football team. They lived there even as their sons were drafted into the U.S. Army. 331615 https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160655450


]]> 2017-03-16 20:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160655450 Only one building is left but the foundations of most are there. Signs are still there showing were schools are and such. 331615 https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160657922 2017-03-16 20:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/418091/kzd4ctj1ycvi/wish/160657922