During college, one of my classes drove a long way to a deep valley,
with an eerie lake at one end,
so we could survey the remains of a large camp used to confine people
who had immigrated from a nation which had just attacked us,
because we feared that some of them might betray their new home,
so the prisoners built gardens made from stone to while away the years until the war ended.
Where was I?
There's some kind of irony in having one of the worst episodes of the 20th century in America take place in such a beautiful environment. The photo still looks beautiful to me, but also seems chilling now, too. I've always heard about the camps, but I've never seen one. Thanks for posting.
Woo-Hoo! Thanks for leading me down this path. It took some research on Japanese Internment Camps but ultimately, based on the topography of your images I was able to narrow it down. Also, it seems they used stone camps. Beautiful scenery.
Only the gates and the base of the administration building were made from stone. The barracks were made from wood and were no longer on site. The rest of the stone is from rock gardens the prisoners built. Some of the gardens were quite elaborate and included concrete ponds and streams. I think one of them has been partially restored since our class visited the site.it seems they used stone camps.