Idaho US12 Japanese Internment & POW (#0187)

A plaque at an historic ranger station describing the building of the roads in the area. Important here is the mention of Japanese-American internees in building US 12 (the lower picture). The relatively small Kooskia Japanese Internment camp was near here during WWII and provided laborers for local projects (there was also an Italian POW camp in the area). The site of the Internment camp is not marked and not publicly accessible, though there is a project by the University of Idaho to document the camp: www.uidaho.edu/class/kicap