CAMP TULELAKE
Detention Camp — Hill Road, Tulelake, California
Status: Historic site · Access: Restricted access · est. 1935
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/camp-tulelake-california/

Former CCC camp later used for wartime detention.

Camp Tulelake is a detention camp in Tulelake, California, built in 1935. Former CCC camp later used for wartime detention. It sits in the archive under dark history. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. Access is restricted — check current rules before planning anything. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.

Camp Tulelake was built to employ young men and ended by imprisoning them. The Civilian Conservation Corps raised the camp in 1935 — one of the New Deal's work camps, where enrollees earning thirty dollars a month built the duck hospital, the refuge headquarters, and the stone walls Mexican American masons laid around the Klamath refuge buildings.
The war changed what the camp was for. In March 1943, more than a hundred men from the Tule Lake relocation center were moved here — imprisoned in the old CCC barracks for refusing to answer the government's loyalty questionnaire. When a judge ruled they had broken no law, the WRA held them at the isolated camp anyway, fearing the example. Later that year, after a fatal farm accident at the Segregation Center and the strike that followed, 243 strikebreakers from other camps were housed at Tulelake for their own protection. From 1944 to 1946 the camp held German and Italian prisoners of war — the same barracks housing, in sequence, unemployed Americans, imprisoned American citizens, and captured enemy soldiers.
Four of the twenty-three buildings remain — a barracks, the mess hall, the garage, the paint shop — the only CCC camp in the region still standing, now part of Tule Lake National Monument. The site is not open to the public; the buildings stand on Hill Road above the refuge the CCC men built.
Camp Tulelake is the archive's triple-use file — the camp that held workers, then dissenters, then prisoners of war, in buildings that served all three purposes in a single decade on the same ground.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Camp Tulelake is the archive's reused-camp file — the 1935 CCC camp that became a jail for Japanese American men who refused the loyalty questionnaire, then a POW camp for Germans and Italians, the only CCC camp in the region still standing.
A camp that held three kinds of prisoners keeps its barracks — the file's suggestion being that Tulelake's hold is the sequence: the same buildings housing the unemployed, the incarcerated citizens, and the captured enemies, in the decade when America sorted people into camps.

HISTORY — 2 documented facts
· The 1930s CCC camp held Japanese Americans during wartime and German and Italian prisoners of war in 1944–1946. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'Tule Lake' documents the entry. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.
· [1943-01-01–1946-01-01] The CCC camp was converted to hold Japanese Americans and later German POWs during the war. The record dates it to 1943-01-01–1946-01-01. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'Tule Lake National Monument' carry the record. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.

SOURCES — 3 cited
· Tule Lake — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/places/crtulelake.htm
· Camp Tulelake — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/places/camp-tulelake.htm
· Tule Lake National Monument — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/tule

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