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  Jerome, Arkansas
During the rainy season, in the heart of the Arkansas lowlands, the Jerome Center, whose residents are former Californians of Japanese ancestry, was one vast quagmire.
Jerome residents who are to be moved to the Rohwer Center are assembled at the block mess halls and then taken the thirty mile distance by bus.
Jerome residents who are to be moved to the Rohwer Center are assembled at the block mess halls and taken the thirty miles distance by bus.
www.bookmice.net /darkchilde/japan/jerome.html   (2197 words)

  
 Jerome
Jerome Relocation Center was the last center to open and the first to close.
The early closure of Jerome was cited by the War Relocation Authority as a sign of success in placing Japanese Americans in jobs and homes outside of the West Coast Restricted Zone.
Joanna Lewis, of the University of Arkansas History Department, is the Project Director of Life Interrupted: The Internment of Japanese Americans in WWII Arkansas.
www.nps.gov /manz/ccjerome.htm   (472 words)

  
 Jerome Relocation Camp
Jerome had the highest percentage of persons answering negatively, giving a qualified answer, or refusing to answer.
Jerome had the lowest percentage of eligible male citizens inducted into the armed forces besides Tule Lake.
History: There were no guard towers at Jerome and the fences were low; this was the camp was surrounded by swamps inhabited by four species of the most deadly snakes in America.
www.csuohio.edu /art_photos/jerome/jerome.html   (309 words)

  
 Jerome Relocation Center
Construction of the Jerome Relocation Center began on July 15, 1942, and it was the last of the ten camps to be opened on October 6, 1942.
A Memphis reporter spent a week at Jerome and wrote that sabotage and unrest were prevalent at Jerome and that the evacuees were destroying equipment and refusing to work.
Since Jerome was the least developed of all the camps, it closed on June 30, 1944.
www.javadc.org /jerome_relocation_center.htm   (1205 words)

  
 Jerome - Wikitravel
Jerome (Arkansas) - A town in the state of Arkansas.
Jerome (Illinois) - A town in the state of Illinois.
Jerome (Pennsylvania) - A town in the state of Pennsylvania.
wikitravel.org /en/Jerome   (116 words)

  
 Jerome Arkansas Resource Guide, City or community of Jerome, Arkansas Facts, Information, Relocation, Real Estate, ...
The distance from Jerome to Washington DC is 924 miles.
The distance to the Arkansas state capital is 105 miles.
Jerome is positioned 33.39 degrees north of the equator and 91.47 degrees west of the prime meridian.
www.usacitiesonline.com /arcountyjerome.htm   (187 words)

  
 University of Central Arkansas | Torreyson Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Gale Stewart had a private law practice in Little Rock, Arkansas, and she was active in the movement to prevent the channelization of the Cache River, 1968-1986.
Richard Allin was a journalist for the Arkansas Gazette and the Arkansas Democrat Gazette from 1963-2003.
The Arkansas Chapter of the Wildlife Society is made up of professionals and educators who seek high ethical and professional standards in the realm of their profession.
archives.uca.edu /manuscript_collection.html   (6267 words)

  
 Jerome, Arkansas (AR) population and demographics data - Sperling's BestPlaces
As of 2005, Jerome's population is 44 people.
Compared to the rest of the country, Jerome's cost of living is 30.00 % lower than the U.S. average.
The unemployment rate in Jerome is 8.60 percent (U.S. avg.
www.bestplaces.net /city/profile.aspx?city=Jerome_AR   (101 words)

  
 Jerome Profile | Jerome AR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jerome, AR, population 46, is located in Arkansas's Drew county, about 104.3 miles from Little Rock and 106.7 miles from Jackson.
Through the 90's Jerome's population has declined by about 2%.
It is estimated that in recent years Jerome's population has been declining at an annual rate of 1.3 percent.
www.idcide.com /citydata/ar/jerome.htm   (50 words)

  
 Report to the President: Japanese-American Internment Sites Preservation
Background: The Jerome Relocation Center was constructed in 1942 on approximately 500 acres in Drew and Chicot counties in southeastern Arkansas.
Today, the three county area where the two Arkansas relocation centers were located have a combined population of approximately 50,000.
The nearest Federal presence is the Arkansas Post National Memorial, approximately 60 miles north of Jerome, and the White River National Wildlife Refuge, approximately 60 miles northeast of Jerome.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/internment/reporta9.htm   (387 words)

  
 Arkansas History Commission & State Archives preserves Arkansas history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
One of the most useful sources of Arkansas local history and genealogy is the reprinted six volume set, published in 1889-1891 by the Goodspeed's Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois.
Producing this type of "vanity" publication was a common practice of the Goodspeed Company and several of its competitors in the latter part of the 19th and early years of the 20th century.
The Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Arkansas from 1841, 1865-1938, are currently available on 10 rolls of 35 mm microfilm and are filed in the General Microfilm File under "Masons".
arkansashistory.arkansas.com /selected_materials   (3027 words)

  
 Arkansas Attractions Lodging Dining: places to visit, fun things to do
The Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism is in compliance with the Freedom of Information.
Arkansas is a unique tapestry of mountains, plains and fertile delta.
Explore each and every one our state's six regions, our 51 Arkansas State Parks, a particular city or a specific lake or river using the links below or the regional state map at right.
www.arkansas.com /attractions   (348 words)

  
 George Hoshida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The concentration camp at Jerome had no guards in the watchtowers because, unlike most of the other concentration camps, it was surrounded by swamps infested with poisonous snakes.
Hoshida's wife, Tamae, had "voluntarily evacuated" to the mainland with the hope that she could be reunited with her husband.
The Hoshida's remained at this camp until it was closed June 30, 1944, and were subsequently transferred to Gila River, Arizona for the remainder of the war.
www.janm.org /exhibits/hoshida/jerome.html   (285 words)

  
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Arkansas Softball Hall of Fame has inducted 49 players since 1999.
We are in the process of raising money to be included into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame located in Altell Arena in Little Rock.
Jerome Wolf is currently the Chairman of the Board, with Roland Pennington as the Vice Chairman.
www.arsoftballhalloffame.com   (387 words)

  
 Jerome Anders, MS - Custom Knife Makers - Not In Stock : Custom Knives - Knife
Jerome and his father David are the first father and son master smith team in the American Bladesmith Society.
Jerome is also a member of the American Knifemakers Association and the Gulf Coast Custom Knife Makers.
Jerome has added his name to the long list of great Arkansas knife makers.
www.knifeart.com /jeromeanders.html   (184 words)

  
 Memorable Quotes from Biloxi Blues (1988)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Jerome: Ho no. I mean, no ho, sergent.
Eugene Morris Jerome: A piece of dung would never shit a piss drunk sergeant with a loaded.45.
Eugene Morris Jerome: Hey, what if she's ugly.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0094746/quotes   (1123 words)

  
 Jerome, Arkansas AR, city profile (Drew County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Arkansas > All counties > Drew County > Jerome
At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Jerome was $11,707, compared with $21,587 nationally.
Median rent in Jerome, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $275.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=11562   (614 words)

  
 Life Interrupted - History
Two of those camps were located in southeastern Arkansas.
Evacuees came from California and had to endure a three-day train ride from the assembly centers to reach Arkansas.
07-11/44: Jerome produced over 250,000 board feet of lumber and over 6,000 cords of firewood (from inmates clearing trees.) In 1943, 630 acres were put under cultivation at Jerome.
www.lifeinterrupted.org /html/history.html   (326 words)

  
 Gallery of the Open Frontier Site Map / Subject Headings Beginning with "T"
One of the 500 Jerome residents, waiting to be put on the train for movement to the Granada Center, bids goodbye to a neighbor whose new residence will be the Rohwer Center.
Truck loads of household furnishings from the Jerome Center are here seen entering the Rohwer Center in advance of the buses carrying evacuees.
One of the hundreds of truck loads of household furnishings belonging to the new residents of Rohwer is seen passing through the “Welcome Arch“ at that center.
gallery.unl.edu /Sitemap_Images_T6.html   (3173 words)

  
 Jerome Real Estate - Jerome Arkansas
You might be interested to know that Jerome has a population of 4,587 and the average household income in Jerome is $32,356.
Residents of Jerome enjoy 41.3 degree weather in the month of January and 82.3 degree weather in the month of July.
The median age in Jerome is 35.44 and the average household size in Jerome is 2.48.
www.homepages.com /localpages/Arkansas/Jerome.htm   (131 words)

  
 JAPANESE
The Sakaguchi family was relocated to the Jerome Relocation Center in Jerome, Arkansas during World War II.
One other fl and white photograph is of Thomas Sakaguchi at the Jerome Relocation Center -- the Center's barracks are visible in the background.
Published semiweekly in Denson, Arkansas at the Jerome Relocation Center, 1942-1943.
www.balchinstitute.org /manuscript_guide/html/japanese.html   (2265 words)

  
 Sports 4 - Uconn Rolls Past Central Arkansas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
(Sports Network) - Jerome Dyson scored 20 points to lead the 21st-ranked Connecticut Huskies to a 88-59 rout of the Central Arkansas Bears in the opening round of the Hispanic College Fund Classic at the Hartford Civic Center.
Jeff Adrien had 14 points and 11 rebounds while Stanley Robinson netted 13 for the Huskies (2-0), who connected on 50 percent of their shots from the field.
Central Arkansas, though, closed the half scoring 13 of the final 20 points, highlighted by treys from Campbell and Pillow, narrowing the gap to 44-28.
www.wciv.com /news/stories/1106/375384.html   (405 words)

  
 Jerome (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jerome may refer to places in the United States,
Jerome is a variant of the name Hieronymus,
Jerome (c.340-420) Christian saint, translated the Bible into Latin
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jerome_(disambiguation)   (108 words)

  
 Maude H (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Thompson, Supervisor of Education in the State Department of Education was asked by the War Relocation Authority to appoint a teacher for the Japanese Relocation Center at Jerome, Arkansas.
Jerome was one of two Japanese Relocation Centers in Arkansas, and was about 11 miles from Dermott.
The papers consist of a small amount of correspondence, school programs, memorabilia and photographs of the Relocation Center at Jerome, and two booklets describing the educational program of the Relocation Center at Topaz, Uath.
archives.uca.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /special_collection/m87-06.htm   (349 words)

  
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During World War II, about 19,000 Japanese Americans arrived in Arkansas and were quartered in internment camps in the state.
Arkansas housed two of the eight internment camps in the United States.
The two internment camps were located in Jerome, Arkansas and Rohwer, Arkansas.
asms.k12.ar.us /armem/tsang/INDEX4.HTM   (62 words)

  
 Arkansas Boer Goat Association
Jerome Gentry is now a USBGA Arkansas State Representative.
The Arkansas Farmers CO-OP now carries Tennessee Farmers CO-OP line of goat feed.
If the other feeds are so good they would have put it in a store in Arkansas and the in state feeds would have worked with us on a better price.
www.arkansasboergoatassociation.com   (227 words)

  
 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This is picture of Jerome Internment camp at the present day.
: June 30, 1944; Jerome was in operation only 634 days, the shortest of any camp.
All of the pictures and information were displayed with permission from the Arkansas archieves at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas.
asms.k12.ar.us.cob-web.org:8888 /armem/tsang/INDEX12.HTM   (149 words)

  
 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville: Jerome Relocation Center Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Jerome relocation center was one of two Japanese internment camps built in southeast Arkansas.
Other papers include censuses of Japanese-Americans arriving at both Jerome and Rohwer (Desha County) camps, legal proceedings against a California State Personnel employee, a charter and report from the Minidoka camp residents in Hunt, Idaho, and pamphlets.
The Jerome Relocation Center Collection was purchased by Special Collections from South by Southwest in April, 1984.
libinfo.uark.edu /specialcollections/findingaids/jerome.html   (242 words)

  
 Relatives of Elsie May Gertrude HUTCHENS
Elsie married Orval Jerome GLASS, son of Alford Clemmons GLASS and Flora Bell UNRO, on 3 Oct 1931 in Waldron, Scott County, Arkansas.
She was born October 8, 1916 in Waldron, Arkansas, the daughter of Lewis S. And Venie (Hicks) Hutchens, and died Friday, March 17 in Chickasha.
She was preceded in death by both parents, stepmother, one brother, Lester Hutchens, one sister, Ruth Taylor, and a grandson, Mike Glass.
pages.sbcglobal.net /kkuhlman/293.htm   (259 words)

  
 History
His Arkansas Land portrays the development of Arkansas through the people whose livelihood depended on the land.
Modern agriculture has drowned the farmer in its wake; yet, much of what we all uphold as the traditional values of self-reliance, hard work, family centeredness and human honesty seems tied to the fate of the small farm family.
Few people realize that during World War II, Rohwer and Jerome, Arkansas were sites for two Japanese-American incarceration camps.
www.arkhums.org /catalog/exhibits/history.html   (466 words)

  
 Gallery of the Open Frontier Site Map / Subject Headings Beginning with "C"
In the background a truck is being loaded with the Matsunaga's and their neighbors belongings.
Practically all the center's “furniture“ was home-made from scraps from the Jerome sawmill.
View in the Jerome motor pool showing trucks and other vehicles assembled for shipment to other centers.
gallery.unl.edu /Sitemap_Images_C25.html   (3254 words)

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