GRANADA, Colo. — Concrete slabs, iron rods and sheds are about all that remains of the incarceration camp here that held more than 7,000 people of Japanese descent from 1942 to 1945.
There is also a water tower, a guard tower and a barracks. But those are replicas of structures from the original compound, one of 10 camps the U.S. government ran during World War II across seven states.
The replicas are in place partly because of the efforts of teacher John Hopper, the primary caretaker of the site since the early 1990s. “I fall into stuff, I guess,” Hopper said of his work at Amache. “I can’t win the dang lottery, but I fall into stuff, and I fell into a lot of this.”
