Jerome War Relocation Center

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Jerome War Relocation Center in Jerome, Arkansas

The Jerome War Relocation Center was a Japanese American internment camp located in southeastern Arkansas near the tiny town of Jerome. Open from October 1942 until June 1944,^{[citation needed]} it was the last relocation camp to open and the first to close;^{[citation needed]} at one point it contained as many as 8,497 inhabitants.^{[citation needed]} After closing, it was converted into a holding camp for German prisoners of war.^{[citation needed]} Today, there are few remains of the camp standing, the most prominent being the smokestack from the hospital incinerator.^{[citation needed]}

A 10-foot (3.0 m) high granite monument marks the camp location and history.^{[citation needed]} The marker is located on US Highway 165, at County Road 210, approximately 8 miles south of Dermott, Arkansas.^{[citation needed]}

Jerome is located 30 miles (48.3 km) southwest of the Rohwer War Relocation Center.^{[citation needed]} Both camps were served by the same rail line.^{[citation needed]}

On December 21, 2006 President Bush signed H.R. 1492 into law guaranteeing $38,000,000 in federal money to restore the Jerome relocation center along with nine other former Japanese internment camps. "H.R. 1492".

The 2004 PBS documentary film "Time of Fear" outlines this history of this camp, and a similar camp in nearby Rowher, Arkansas. Due to the large number of Japanese Americans detained, these two towns were briefly the fifth and sixth largest cities in Arkansas.^{[citation needed]}