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Portland Expo Center**Δ

This was the site of the stockyards where the Japanese Americans were held for 3 months in 1942 before they were shipped to internment camps. There is a commemorative plaque at the Exhibition Building. There will also soon be information at the MAX station there.

Portland: N. Portland, exit west at 306B from I-5.

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* Fee
** "Virtual": original site only, barren or built over.
† Site has information about multiple ethnic groups.
Δ Portland area trip.
+ Information and directions to site may be found in Windows on the Past, an Interpretive Guide to Pacific NW History, published by the USDA Forest Service.