Historical Marker · No. 934
Arboga Assembly Center
Arboga, Yuba County · California
Erected by California State Parks with the Marysville Joint Unified School District, the Yuba County Board of Supervisors, the Friends for the Preservation of Yuba County History, the National Park Service, the Marysville Buddhist Church and the Marysville Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, 2010
A camp built in the 1930s to house migrant farm workers held 2,465 Japanese Americans here for fifty-three days in 1942. They came from Placer County and from Florin, the Japanese American farming town south of Sacramento. The barracks went up on mud, the floors came out uneven, the toilets were pits without partitions. In the last week of June everyone was moved to Tule Lake, and in July the Army took the site over for soldiers. The bronze went up in 2010 and calls the order unjustified.
What the plaque says
Arboga Assembly Center This is the site of Arboga, where 2,465 Japanese Americans forced from their homes in Placer and Sacramento counties were incarcerated from May 8 to June 29, 1942, by the United States Government. Four months prior, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which unjustifiably ordered the removal of all persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast. Henceforth, may constitutional rights be unquestionably upheld in these United States of America. Dedicated on February 27, 2010 California State Historical Landmark No. 934
Where it stands
39.04771, -121.57478 · Directions
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