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Minidoka National Historic Site
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- Designation
- National Historic Site
- States
- ID, WA
- Park address
- Jerome, ID
- Entrance fee
- No entrance feeNPS data as of 2026-08-25
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Notes
Designation Date: 01/01/2014
During World War II, over 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated without due process of law. Although little remains of the barbed-wire fences and tar-papered barracks, the Minidoka concentration camp once held over 13,000 Japanese Americans in the Idaho desert. Minidoka preserves their legacy and teaches the importance of civil liberties.