East of the rugged Sierra Nevada in California\'s Owens Valley lies Manzanar.
But with the onset of World War II came a new identity as the first of 10 "relocation centers" hastily built in 1942 to house 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of the.
Owens Valley Paiute lived there first, followed by white homesteaders and ranchers.
Founded in 1910 as a fruit-growing colony, it was named in Spanish for the fragrant apple orchards that once filled its spectacularly scenic landscape.
East of the rugged Sierra Nevada in California\'s Owens Valley lies Manzanar