Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, Japanese American Internment Camp
Powell, Wyoming
Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, located in Park County, WY, works to preserve what remains of a WWII Japanese American confinement site and to tell the stories of more than 14,000 people who were incarcerated there. heartmountain.org
Access to online records at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Japanese-American Internee Data File 1942–1946, can be found here https://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=623&cat=all&bc=sl. (Thanks to Dakota for providing this link!)
America’s Summer Roadtrip is a project of The Pursuit of History™, the non-profit organization that engages adults in conversation about history and connects them with historic sites in their communities and across the country. Our goal with the Roadtrip was to celebrate these important sites and bring them, and the stories they tell, to new audiences around the country and around the world.
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America’s Summer Roadtrip 2020 Sites
| Historic New Bridge Landing, River Edge, New Jersey |
| The Rebecca Nurse Homestead, Danvers, Massachusetts |
| National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Minute Man National Historical Park, Concord, Massachusetts |
| The Great Hall, Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts |
| The Molly Brown House, Denver, Colorado |
| Thomas Edison National Historical Park, West Orange, New Jersey |
| Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Nageezi, New Mexico |
| American Heritage Museum at the Collings Foundation, Stow, Massachusetts |
| Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, Japanese American Internment Camp, Powell, Wyoming |
| Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina |
| Marshall Gold Discovery State Park, Coloma, California |
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Thank You!
America’s Summer Roadtrip is a project of The Pursuit of History™, the non-profit organization that engages adults in conversation about history and connects them with historic sites in their communities and across the country.
Thank you to the staff and volunteers at the 12 sites that participated this year.
Thank you to Just Add Video for their top-notch A/V services.
And to Carrie Lund, Lee Wright, Michelle Novak, Larisa Chancellor, Danella LeRoy, Kevin Yosef, and Joanna Wendel.
America’s Summer Roadtrip is made possible by donations to The Pursuit of History, including from Lorna Hainesworth who’s donation helped ensure a great video experience.