A Look Back in Time: Japanese Americans of Lewis County Boarded on Train to California Internment Camp in 1942

Compiled by Matthew Zylstra / matthew@chronline.com

Posted 6/3/22

Fifty-three Japanese Americans left the Chehalis Train Depot on Tuesday, June 2, 1942, on a train headed to Tule Lake, California, to be held in a “Japanese assembly center.” The 53 …