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In part, the county’s future was formed in water — corralled and controlled for irrigation behind the spillway of a dam. Minidoka Dam is part of the Minidoka Project. And its construction was ...
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) - A south-central Idaho man has drowned in the Snake River below Minidoka Dam. The Minidoka County Sheriff’s Office tells The Times-News (https://bit.ly/1ThpxQW ...
This includes evaluating the feasibility of rebuilding the Teton Dam and expanding storage capacity at key locations such as Minidoka Dam, Jackson Lake Dam, and Twin Springs Dam. These projects ...
Paul Tomita was four. It was July 4, 1943. Independence Day at Minidoka, a camp in the vast Idaho desert, where over 13,000 Japanese American men, women and children were incarcerated during World ...
On August 10, 1942, the Minidoka incarceration camp opened, unfinished. The water systems were not ready until October, two months after construction. Today, the story of the camp shares the same ...
That is what's behind a special collaboration between KIN and the nonprofit Friends of Minidoka. The nonprofit engages in, and supports, education, research and historic preservation of the World ...
Former President Clinton designated Minidoka as a national monument in 2001. Locally, several groups -- the Japanese American Citizens League, The Wing Luke Asian Museum, the Friends of Minidoka ...