Ranger Sarah with another view of Amache's P.X.. On October 15, 1945, the last Amache resident left and the camp closed its gates. Incarcerees were given $25 and a train ticket to a destination of their choosing and told to start their lives over again.
— at Amache National Historic Site.

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Ranger Sarah looks at the foundation for the camps P.X. The original Amache building foundations and the historic road network are still visible on the landscape today.
— at Amache National Historic Site.

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Ranger Sarah with another look at the Office Service Building Foundation. After 1945, most of the original buildings at Amache were removed or demolished. Despite that, Amache is one of the most intact examples of a World War II incarceration site.
— at Amache National Historic Site.

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Ranger Sarah with a look at the foundation for the Office Service Building at Amache. From 1942-1945, over 10,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of them American citizens, passed through Amache.
— at Amache National Historic Site.

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Ranger Sarah looks at the foundation for the Community Council Building. The Camp Amache residential area is spread atop a low hill, which prevented the flooding and mud problems which plagued other WRA camps.
— at Amache National Historic Site.

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Ranger Sarah spots part of a foundation hiding under a fallen tree. During WWII Amache was the 10th largest city in the state of Colorado.
— at Amache National Historic Site.

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Ranger Sarah looks at the foundation of one of the warehouses at Amache, located on the south side of 3rd Street.
— at Amache National Historic Site.

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