Arboga is an

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Yuba County, California Yuba County (; Maidu: ''Yubu'') is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the population was 81,575. The county seat is Marysville. Yuba County is included in the Yuba City, California Metropolitan Statistical ...

. It is located , south of Olivehurst on the

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, at an elevation of 56 feet (17 m). It was named in 1911 by the pastor of the

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for his hometown of Arboga, Sweden. During

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, a temporary detention camp for Japanese Americans

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from the West Coast by Executive Order 9066 was located here. The Marysville Assembly Center opened on May 8, 1942, and held 2,465 people before closing on June 29, when the residents were transferred to the more permanent and isolated concentration camp at

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, California. A post office operated at Arboga from 1912 to 1926.

Arboga Assembly Center

The Marysville Assembly Center was built at a camp for migrant workers at Arboga, 8 miles south of

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. The camp was also called the Arboga Assembly Center. The center was one of fifteen temporary centers in

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. Those of Japanese ancestry were housed at the camp from May 8, 1942, to June 29. The assembly center housed at its peak 2,465 evacuees. Most came from Placer and Sacramento counties. The camp had about 160 buildings, with five dining halls and two infirmaries. Most were moved to the

Tule Lake War Relocation Center The Tule Lake National Monument in Modoc County, California, Modoc and Siskiyou County, California, Siskiyou counties in California, consists primarily of the site of the Tule Lake War Relocation Center, one of ten concentration camps constructe ...

. In July 1942 the

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took over the camp for the use of soldiers The site is a

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number 934.01. The California Historical Landmark reads: :''NO. 934 TEMPORARY DETENTION CAMPS FOR JAPANESE AMERICANS-MARYSVILLE ASSEMBLY CENTER - The temporary detention camps (also known as 'assembly centers') represent the first phase of the mass incarceration of 97,785 Californians of Japanese ancestry during World War II. Pursuant to Executive Order 9066 signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, thirteen makeshift detention facilities were constructed at various California racetracks, fairgrounds, and labor camps. These facilities were intended to confine Japanese Americans until more permanent concentration camps, such as those at Manzanar and Tule Lake in California, could be built in isolated areas of the country. Beginning on March 30, 1942, all native-born Americans and long-time legal residents of Japanese ancestry living in California were ordered to surrender themselves for detention. ''californiahistoricallandmarks.com Landmarks chl-934.01
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Arboga Assembly Center

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