July 6, 1992

The cemetery of the Japanese American internment camp at Rohwer (Desha County) was proclaimed a national landmark. It had been added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Rohwer Relocation Center was one of two World War II–era incarceration camps built in the state to house Japanese Americans from the West Coast, the other being the Jerome Relocation Center.

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