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Show Millard County Topaz War Relocation ~enter't Sixteen mUes northwest of Delta (NR). Officially . tenown as the Central Utah War Relocation Center" Topaz was one often camps estabUshed in the Unit_ed States to house persons of Japanese _ descent from the West Coast and symb<?,Uzes the extreine~ p~x prejudice and war hysterlafollowing the attaclc on Pearl Harbor. Some eight thousand evacuees UvedtkX in the barractcs-type structures which were furnished from army stores. although residents made most of their own furniture. Dining, recreational, and sanitary facUities were, shared. ldxDaS*X MC UIl8XR The cost of the camp, constructed between July 1942 .and January ticix 1943 was estimated at five mUlton dollars with another five mUlion dollars required annually for the operation of the camp. -Throughout the three-year . " . . history of the camp, from its-.'.,opening 11, 1942 to October 31,': ,i - on September .-1945, crime was almost nonex~stent.Residents were involved in various enterprises . including agriculture, furni ture-maldng ., brickmatdng., sheet metal manufacturing and numerous single--employee jobs and services. Some 3,000 students passed through t.he Topaz School system., and a newspaper:, -. .. . Topaz Times, was pubUshed~All buildings now have been demolished • •' |
