Established between 1942 and 1945 when the area was Granada War Relocation Center, the cemetery includes 11 grave plots, ten with markers and one without. According to WRA records, 106 deaths occurred at Amache, although many remains were voluntarily removed after Amache’s closure in 1945.
Along the route of Santa Fe NHT is Amache, also known as the Granada Relocation Center, near Granada. It was one of ten incarceration sites established by the War Relocation Authority during World War II to unjustly incarcerate Japanese Americans. The Amache Museum is located in Granada.
