{"id":1840,"slug":"poston-relocation-center-unit-i-arizona","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Poston is the layered — the 'reservation' that's the irony built, the 'Tribal opposed' that's the elders' no. The 'Roasten Toasten Dustin' is the named — the 'three camps' that's the miles split, the 'nicknames' that's the dust's joke. The 'school stands' is the kept — the 'adobe built' that's the inmates' hands, the 'only complex' that's the camps' last.","The '17,814' is the packed — the 'peak '42' that's the desert's crowd, the 'third city' that's the Arizona's rank. The 'strike won' is the stood — the 'November '42' that's the refusal made, the 'demands met' that's the resistance's fruit. Poston is the irrigated — the 'ditches dug' that's the labor took, the 'tribe's farms' that's the benefit's aim.","The file keeps Poston: the reservation's irony, the three nicknames, the standing school, and the won strike.","Poston is the archive's Arizona file — the camp built on the tribe that said no."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Poston is the archive's Arizona file — where imprisoned Americans built schools for a reservation that refused them.","A camp keeps its irony — the file's suggestion being that Poston's hold is the doubled: the 'tribe objected' that's the injustice known, the 'adobe school' that's the hands built, and the 'strike won' that's the dignity kept."]}],"name":"Poston Relocation Center — Unit I","aliases":["Colorado River Relocation Center Unit I","Poston Elementary School Unit I"],"type":"INCARCERATION_SITE","type_label":"Incarceration Site","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","HISTORIC_SITE"],"groups":["dark-history","institutions"],"desc":"Surviving school complex and memorial of Poston incarceration camp.","full_desc":"Poston Relocation Center — Unit I is a incarceration site in Arizona. Surviving school complex and memorial of Poston incarceration camp. Japanese American children attended the camp school until the camp closed in 1945. Tribal and local education use continued from 1949 to 1980; several original school buildings remain.","address":"26600 Mohave Road","city":"Parker","county":null,"state":"Arizona","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":34.034006,"lon":-114.228109,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":"On Colorado River Indian Tribes land; NPS describes visible memorial and school remains but does not establish current entry permission.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":1945,"year_demolished":null,"designation":"National Historic Landmark","current_use":null,"research_notes":"Record targets preserved Unit I complex rather than treating all three Poston camp units as one address. NPS statement that this was the only WRA camp on a reservation conflicts with Gila River evidence and is not adopted.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":67.9,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"Japanese American children attended the camp school until the camp closed in 1945. Tribal and local education use continued from 1949 to 1980; several original school buildings remain. Poston Relocation Center — Unit I's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'Poston Elementary School, Unit 1, Colorado River…' documents the entry. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Poston Elementary School, Unit 1, Colorado River Relocation Center","url":"https://www.nps.gov/places/colorado-river-relocation-center.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}},{"description":"~18,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated at Poston from 1942 to 1945. The record dates it to 1942-05-08–1945-11-28. 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. The record appears in 'Poston'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1942-05-08","date_end":"1945-11-28","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Poston","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poston_War_Relocation_Center","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[{"name":"Poston incarceration","type":"INCARCERATION","date_start":"1942-05-08","date_end":"1945-11-28","description":"Poston opened May 8, 1942, on the Colorado River Indian Reservation — the largest camp complex at some 18,000 people, incarcerating Japanese Americans on tribal land over the tribe's own objections. Its adobe school blocks and collapsed barracks still stand in the desert; the memorial is maintained in part by the tribe that unwillingly hosted it.","evidence":"INCARCERATION","source":{"name":"Poston","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poston_War_Relocation_Center","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting; check nps.gov for current hours and alerts.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Poston Elementary School, Unit 1, Colorado River Relocation Center","url":"https://www.nps.gov/places/colorado-river-relocation-center.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1},{"name":"Poston","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poston_War_Relocation_Center","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[{"field_name":"short_description","existing_value":"Surviving school complex and memorial of Poston incarceration camp.","incoming_value":"The Colorado River camp—the largest internment site, on tribal land.","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."},{"field_name":"full_description","existing_value":"Poston Relocation Center — Unit I is a incarceration site in Arizona. 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NPS statement that this was the only WRA camp on a reservation conflicts with Gila River evidence and is not adopted.","incoming_value":"Lore enrichment wave 2; VERIFY task auto-queued.","notes":"Preserve both source-backed variants; no automatic overwrite."}],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":2,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":2}}