#0934 Temporary Detention Camps for Japanese Americans - Arboga Assembly Center
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#0934 Temporary Detention Camps for Japanese Americans - Arboga Assembly Center
Site information:
Arboga Community, on Broadway St, between Feather River Blvd and Dye RdAn Arboga Assembly Memorial Site and Interpretive Center has been established near the origial site. The actual site was located south of Broadway, across from the memorial.
The plaque calls this the Arboga Assembly Center, though the OHP calls this the Marysville Assembly Center.
39.047859, -121.574608
Plaque information:
State plaque has been placed at the Arboga Assembly Memorial Site on Broadway.OHP description:
This is hte site of Arboga, where 2,465 Japanese Americans forced from their homes in Placer and Sacramento Counties were incarcerated from May 8 to June 29, 1942, by the United States government. Four months prior, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed executive order 9066, which unjustifiably ordered the removal of all persons of Japanese ancestry from the west coast. Henceforth, may consitutional rights be unquestionably upheld in these United States of America.Dedicated on February 27, 2010
Sponsors include: California State Parks, Marysville Joint Unified School District, Yuba County Board of Supervisors, Friends for the Preservation of Yuba County History, National Park Service, Marysville Buddhist Church, Marysville Chapter Japanese American Citizens League and others.
Registered 5/13/1980