April 15

Tulelake, Modoc County, California • April 15, 1942 On this date in 1942, in a remote, under­developed recla­ma­tion dis­trict roughly 35 miles/­56 kilo­meters south­east of Klamath Falls, Oregon, and about 10 miles/­16 kilo­meters from the town of Tule­lake (or Newell), the federal govern­ment began con­struc­tion of the Tule Lake Relo­ca­tion Center for persons of Japa­nese ances­try forci­bly deported from…