Camp Kohler
38°40′27″N 121°21′59″W / 38.674042°N 121.366481°W
Camp Kohler was located in the northeast corner of unincorporated
History
Camp Kohler had many uses throughout its existence. It began as a migrant farm worker camp and was later used to house over 4,700 Japanese Americans who had been removed from the West Coast during World War II. One of 15 temporary detention sites known as "assembly centers" and run by the Wartime Civilian Control Administration, the Sacramento site, called the Sacramento Assembly Center, confined Japanese Americans from Sacramento and San Joaquin Counties while they waited to be transferred to a more permanent and isolated War Relocation Authority camp. Also known as the Walerga Assembly Center, it was one of the smaller WCCA camps and operated for 52 days, from May 6 to June 26, 1942.[2]
Upon closure of the assembly center, the site was turned over to the
After the war, returning Japanese Americans, prevented from owning their pre-war homes by discriminatory legislation and faced with a severe housing shortage, were often unable to find housing, and 234 families temporarily lived at Camp Kohler in late 1945.[4]
Today, the former Signal Corps camp site is part of a residential subdivision just outside the city of Sacramento, in a community called
See also
- American Theater (1939–1945)
- Desert Training Center
- Military history of the United States during World War II
- United States home front during World War II
- DeWitt General Hospital
References
- ^ a b "Camp Kohler (Sacramento Assembly Center)". California Military History Museum.
- ^ militarymuseum.org Camp Kohler
- ^ militarymuseum.org Camp Kohler Final
- ^ "Sacramento (detention facility)". Densho Encyclopedia. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
- ^ "Sacramento". California State Parks, State of California.