Kooskia Internment Camp
The Kooskia Internment Camp is a former internment camp in the northwest United States, located in north central Idaho, about northeast of Kooskia in northern Idaho County. It operated during the final two years of
Originally a remote highway work camp of the Civilian Conservation Corps it became Federal Prison Camp No. 11 run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. During World War II in 1943, it was converted to house more than 250 interned Japanese men, most of whom were longtime U.S. residents, but not citizens, branded "enemy aliens." Because the camp was so remote in the western fences and guard towers were by the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice.
The government put the internees to labor work to construct the highway, where they were paid about fifty to sixty dollars volunteered from other camps to earn A current archaeological project of the University of Idaho in Moscow, the site is northeast of Lowell just above the north bank of the along elevation of above sea level. The mouth of Canyon Creek is just below
The two-lane highway was completed seventeen years later connecting to Montana at Lolo Pass at and eastward approved as US 12 in Idaho in June 1962; its extension westward from Lewiston through Washington to Aberdeen was approved in 1967, taking over much of US 410, which was decommissioned.
