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=**Heart Mountain--****Powell, Wyoming**=

The years 1942-1945 Heart Mountain camp was the third largest city in Wyoming. At the peak of the World War II Heart Mountain had 10,767 internees, making it the third largest city in Wyoming.

The stories of these people have been able to be told in the new Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, which opened in 2011.

__**Timeline:**__ December 7, 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor

February 19, 1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9066

June 1942: Work begins of Heart Mountain

August 12, 1942: The first 292, Japanese Americans arrive at Heart Mountain.

November 10, 1945: The last train departs from Heart Mountain.

August 10, 1988: Sen. Al Simpson, R-Wyo., and Rep. Norman Mineta, D-Cal., sponsor the Civil Liberties Act of 1988.

1996: The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation forms. Local leaders include John Collins, Dave Reetz and Pat Wolfe. The foundation goes on to purchase 50 acres of land at the original camp site, restore the camps military honor roll and acquire a significance collection of artifacts, oral histories, photos and historic papers.

September 2000: Wyoming Gov. Jim Geringer and Powell Mayor Jim Milburn send letters to surviving Heart Mountain internees and their families, intended to “acknowledge the difficulties and hardships faced by internees and the lack of considerations given to those at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center.”

June 23, 2005: A walking tour of the Heart Mountain camp is dedicated, named in honor of Setsuko Saito Higuchi, a former internee who served on the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation Board of Directors and Advisory Board.

February 1, 2007: Heart Mountain camp site officially named a National Historic Landmark.

August 20, 2011: Heart Mountain Interpretive Center is dedicated and opens to the public. $5.5 million was spent between Powell and Cody to build this center.

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