BAINBRIDGE ISLAND JAPANESE AMERICAN EXCLUSION MEMORIAL
Exclusion Memorial — 4192 Eagle Harbor Drive, Bainbridge Island, Washington
Status: Historic site · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/bainbridge-island-japanese-american-exclusion-memorial-bainbridge-island-washington/

Memorial to the forced removal of island residents.

Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial is a exclusion memorial in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Memorial to the forced removal of island residents. Japanese American island residents received six days’ notice of forced departure in 1942 and were initially taken to Manzanar. The memorial preserves this history.

The Bainbridge Island memorial marks where the incarceration began. On March 30, 1942 — six weeks after Executive Order 9066 — 227 Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island became the first in the country to be forcibly removed, walked down Taylor Avenue to the Eagledale ferry dock and loaded on the Kehloken for the mainland and the camps. The island's Japanese community — two-thirds American citizens — went first to Manzanar, then Minidoka; the cedar that watched them leave still stands.
The memorial builds the history into the ground — the story wall runs 276 feet, one for each islander exiled, following the exact path they walked to the dock; the departure deck sits where the ferry landing was; the cedar witness tree is on the National Registry of Historic Trees. The community's own words are in the terra cotta — 'Nidoto Nai Yoni,' let it not happen again, the phrase the survivors gave the memorial.
The file keeps the memorial's purpose — not a haunting but a marking, the site where the constitutional failure began, the names and ages of all 276 on the wall they walk past. The island's response is the other half of the story: the neighbors who welcomed them back after the war, the memorial built by the community that let them be taken.
Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial is the archive's first-removal file — the Eagledale dock where the first 227 were taken in 1942, the story wall with their names, the cedar that watched them go.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Bainbridge Island memorial is the archive's beginning file — the dock where the incarceration of Japanese Americans started, the 276-foot wall following the path of their removal, the community's 'let it not happen again' built into the ground where it happened.
A dock that began an exile keeps its cedar — the file's suggestion being that the memorial's hold is the witness tree: the living cedar that stood there in 1942, the wall that walks the removal route, and the names of the 276 the island sent away.

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Japanese American island residents received six days’ notice of forced departure in 1942 and were initially taken to Manzanar. The memorial preserves this history. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Bainbridge Island, WA' carry the record. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.

SOURCES — 2 cited
· Minidoka directions — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/miin/planyourvisit/directions.htm
· Bainbridge Island, WA — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/miin/learn/historyculture/bainbridge-island-wa.htm

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