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Not all the center residents will return to their former homes. Many have found permanent relocation in the sandy soil on which the tar paper barracks were hurriedly erected. A total of nearly 15,000 evacuees were inducted into the Granada Project, Amache, Colorado, since August 27, 1942, when the first group arrived from the Merced Assembly Center to prepare the camp for those to follow. The Relocation Center, as its name implies, was a temporary residence for those of Japanese ancestry who were transferred from their homes along the West Coast under an emergency measure of 1942. Many of the evacuees during the past three years were able to resettle and find new homes in the middle west and eastern states. From September 1, 1945 to the closing date October 15, 3,105 persons have gone back to their former homes or have relocated elsewhere. The last to leave the center, a group of 126, left on two special coaches for Sacramento and nearby towns. At the peak of its population, Amache had 7,567 residents. 412 births were recorded and 107 deaths during the three years of its existence. -- Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru -- Amache, Colorado. 10/?/45

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The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.