Terminal Island Fish Harbor
For about 40 years, a Japanese fishing village - Furusato - defined Terminal Island.
A population of about 3,500 Japanese-Americans called the community home until 1942, when all of them were sent to concentration camps — most to Manzanar — where they were interred alongside about 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Furusato was redeveloped as Roosevelt Base, named after the president who’d passed Executive Order 9066 which allowed for the villagers’ internment.
The interesting, tragic story is recorded on this Memorial, constructed in 2001.
Read MoreA population of about 3,500 Japanese-Americans called the community home until 1942, when all of them were sent to concentration camps — most to Manzanar — where they were interred alongside about 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Furusato was redeveloped as Roosevelt Base, named after the president who’d passed Executive Order 9066 which allowed for the villagers’ internment.
The interesting, tragic story is recorded on this Memorial, constructed in 2001.
