Bainbridge Island was the first forced removal and exclusion of Japanese Americans during WWII. Located at the site of the historic Eagledale Ferry Dock where the first 227 Japanese Americans were taken by bayonet armed US Army soldiers, the site is built on Taylor Avenue where they marched down the ferry on March 30, 1942. After boarding the ferry and arriving in Seattle, after a three day/two night train ride and then several hours on a bus, they became the first Japanese American community to be incarcerated at the Mazanar concentration camp in California. The Puyallup Fairgrounds was not a concentration camp, but a temporary "Assembly Center" that housed people mostly from Seattle and Portland to be incarcerated until the concentration camps were completed.
It also talks about how the community of Bainbridge collaborated to keep the lands owned by their Japanese neighbors intact until they returned, after the war
It is a memorial built by the people on the island. Out of respect for their neighbors who are taken to Japanese interment camps such as Manzare in California
It is a memorial that talks above what happened in the area which is representative of what happened in other areas of the US
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