In December 2000, President Clinton declared the Minidoka Internment Camp as a National Monument. Located in Hunt, Idaho, just north of Eden on Highway 93, the Minidoka Internment Camp was one of ten guarded camps in the west where American citizens of Japanese descent were housed during World War II. Although in 1940, approximately 60% of Idaho's Japanese were native-born Americans, 9,400 evacuees were held at this camp surrounded by barbed wire fences and towers and manned by armed guards and watch dogs. Prisoners were told they would be shot if they came within three and a half feet of the fence.
