Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial

[1] Local newspapers such as The Bainbridge Review (made famous by David Guterson's novel Snow Falling on Cedars) spoke out against the internment and continued to publish correspondence from internees.

A Seattle Post-Intelligencer photograph of Bainbridge Island resident Fumiko Hayashida and her 13-month-old daughter preparing to board the ferry that day became famous as a symbol of the internment.

[5] Congress voted to include the memorial in the Minidoka National Historic Site in May 2008 as part of the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008.

[1] The first part of the memorial to be constructed was an outdoor cedar "story wall" with the names of all 276 Japanese Americans resident on the island at the time.

[7] Local artist Steve Gardner created friezes to be placed on the wall, depicting some of the scenes of residents being herded onto the ferries; he stated that the project "sucked me in in a way I hadn't thought about.

Stone wall at memorial entrance
Bainbridge Island, Washington evacuation. Children evacuees wave from special train as it leaves Seattle to an internment camp , March 30, 1942
A view of the memorial from the south, showing the harbor in the background. The Seattle–Bainbridge Ferry terminal is on the other side of the harbor.
The cedar "story wall"