National Historic Landmark · National Monument of the United States · Newell, California

Carpenter and Paint Shop

National Monument of the United States in California in Newell, California. Added to the National Register in 2006, and a National Historic Landmark.

Open to visitNational Historic LandmarkListed 2006
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What it is

Wikipedia · Tule Lake War Relocation Center

The Tule Lake War Relocation Center, also known as the Tule Lake Segregation Center, was an American concentration camp located in Modoc and Siskiyou counties in California and constructed in 1942 by the United States government to incarcerate Japanese Americans, forcibly removing them from their homes on the West Coast of the United States. They totaled nearly 120,000 people, more than two-thirds of whom were United States citizens. Among the inmates, the roughly phonetic Japanese notation "Tsurureiko (鶴嶺湖)" was sometimes used in referring to the camp.

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The record

National Register of Historic Places
Property typeBuilding
AddressNE side CA 139, Newell, CA
CountyModoc County
ListedFeb 17, 2006
Reference number06000210
Type of placeNational Monument of the United States, National Park System unit, national monument
DesignationsNational Historic Landmark
Contributing resources6 buildings, 6 structures, 1 sites, 1 objects
StandingYes

The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗

Visiting

Open to the public
AddressNE side CA 139, Newell, CA
Websitenps.gov/tule ↗
Coordinates41.88686, -121.37660 · Directions ↗
Nearest national park unitTule Lake National Monument · 0 mi · on Park Atlas
Federal campgrounds nearbyIndian Well Campground 13 mi · Medicine Lake Recreation Area 23 mi · Little Mt. Hoffman Lookout 26 mi
This one you can go inside. Hours and admission change with the season; the website above has the current schedule.

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Sources

Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 06000210. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.