Idaho’s Horror Town

The history behind this small town in Idaho will make your blood boil. 

Minidoka County in Southern, Idaho has a pretty dark past. It started during WWII when President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered 120,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans to 10 isolated relocation centers across the United States.

One of these centers was called Hunt Camp in Minidoka County. Here over 9,000 people were housed in tar paper shelters and forced into isolation.

With 9397 people specifically, the concentration camp was actually Idaho's 8th largest city at the time.

During the day the camp held school, there was a hospital of sorts, they played sports and did art, but this was no ordinary camp. Guards were constantly on watch to make sure no one escaped and barbed wire lined the property.

It functioned for just over 3 years as a concentration camp and as a sign at the site reads "May these camps serve to remind us what can happen when other factors supersede the constitutional rights guaranteed to all citizens and aliens living in this country."

Today the camp is a ghost town and known simply as the Minidoka National Historic Site.

For pictures of the actual sight click HERE.