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The National Park System has a new unit protecting the Granada Colorado site for future generations to help tell the history of Japanese American incarceration during World War II.

Amache, also known as the Granada Relocation Center was one of 10 incarceration sites established

by the War Relocation Authority during World War II to detain Japanese Americans forcibly

removed from the West Coast of the United States under the terms of executive order 9066.

More than 10,000 people were incarcerated at Amache from 1942 to 1945, which housed 7,310 at its peak, two-thirds of whom were United States

citizens of Japanese descent.

Today the site consists of a historic cemetery, a monument, concrete building foundations,

and several reconstructed and rehabilitated structures from the camp era.

Amachi is open to the public and currently managed by the Amache Preservation

Society and owned by the town of Granada. Currently, Granada High School students provide

tours of the site in nearby museum. To formally establish the park, the National Park Service will work with the town of Granada to acquire the lands intended in the law, a process that's likely to take more than a year.

The National Park Service has updated its COVID-related mask

rules to align with the CDC's most recent recommendations. Masses are no longer

mandated nationwide at indoor national park service facilities.

However, they're not gone altogether.

Masking requirements will vary by park based on local conditions.

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