JEROME RELOCATION CENTER
Site — Jerome, Arkansas
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/jerome-relocation-center-jerome-arkansas/

The Delta camp that held 8,000—Arkansas’s other incarceration site.

A site in Jerome, Arkansas, Jerome Relocation Center is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The Delta camp that held 8,000—Arkansas’s other incarceration site. HauntHunt files it with dark history, World War II and local folklore. The file’s recurring figure goes by a name, not a description: the jerome incarcerees. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.

Jerome is the shortest — the '634 days' that's the camp's span, the 'last opened' that's the '42 begun. The 'swamp drained' is the made — the 'tax-delinquent' that's the land's state, the 'bayous between' that's the delta's grip. The '8,497' is the held — the '64 percent citizens' that's the wrong done, the 'Hawaii shipped' that's the distance far.
The 'POW next' is the layered — the 'Germans housed' that's the '44 turned, the 'same barracks' that's the camp's reuse. The 'Denson named' is the hidden — the 'post office' that's the euphemism kept, the 'Jerome' that's the town half-mile. Jerome is the emptied — the 'first closed' that's the '44 done, the 'Rohwer absorbed' that's the inmates moved.
The file keeps Jerome: the shortest camp, the drained swamp, the German reuse, and the emptied blocks.
Jerome is the archive's Arkansas file — the camp that held citizens then POWs.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Jerome is the archive's Arkansas file — the camp that ran 634 days then held Germans.
A site keeps its layers — the file's suggestion being that Jerome's hold is the doubled: the 'citizens jailed' that's the wrong done, the 'shortest run' that's the closure's speed, and the 'POW followed' that's the same fences used.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] named ghost legend: The incarcerees are remembered in local lore. The Jerome incarcerees is the name the reports keep returning to. Jerome Relocation Center in Jerome, Arkansas carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. The report is preserved in sources like 'Jerome'. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.
  source: Jerome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_War_Relocation_Center)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1942–1944] The camp ran 1942-44; ~8,000 were held. 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. The record appears in 'Jerome'. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on. The report keeps its place in the record.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Jerome — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_War_Relocation_Center

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