Independence, California
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Independence is an unincorporated census-designated place in and the county seat of Inyo County, California. Independence is located 41 miles south-southeast of Bishop, at an elevation of 3930 feet. T
Inyo County Courthouse
Mount Williamson (14,375 feet or 4,382 metres), one of the spectacular peaks of the John Muir Wilderness, from near the Independence Airport
This granite monolith, The Winnedumah-Paiute Monument, rises prominently from the crest of the Inyo Mountains east of Independence.
The Inyo County Courthouse (designed by W. H. Weeks, completed in 1921) in Independence
Manzanar
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Manzanar is the site of one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II, from March 1942 to November 1945. Although it had ove
Independence, California
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View of original entrance to Manzanar internment camp, November 2024
Unlined section of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, just south of Manzanar near U.S. Route 395, 2007
Two-year-old Yuki Okinaga Hayakawa waits at Union Station for the train taking her and her mother to Manzanar (April 1942)
Wooden sign at entrance to the Manzanar War Relocation Center