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Pinedale Assembly Center Memorial in Fresno commemorates World War II internment
Summary
The Pinedale Assembly Center Memorial in Fresno remembers Japanese Americans confined at a temporary detention site after President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942. The memorial, dedicated in 2009, includes a fountain, a historic marker and 11 storyboards recounting the Pinedale site's history.
The Pinedale Assembly Center Memorial in Fresno commemorates people of Japanese ancestry who were detained at a temporary assembly center after President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942.
The site, located on the former grounds of the Sugar Pine Lumber Mill on Alluvial Avenue about 1 mile west of Blackstone, served as a temporary holding facility for people from Sacramento and Amador counties in California as well as evacuees from Oregon and Washington. The assembly center operated from May to July 1942 and housed roughly 4,800 people…
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