Kooskia Internment Camp

"[1][11] Because the camp was so remote in the western {nowrap Bitterroot Mountains} fences and guard towers were unnecessary.

[1] It  was run by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) of the United States Department of Justice|Department of Justice.

[12] The government put the internees to labor work to construct the Lewis and Clark highway, where they were paid about fifty to sixty dollars per month.

[14] An archaeological project of the University of Idaho in Moscow,[15][16] the site is six miles (10 km) northeast of Lowell on U.S. Route 12, just above the north bank of the Lochsa River along Canyon Creek,[17][18] at an approximate elevation of 1,600 feet (490 m) above sea level.

[25] Its extension westward from Lewiston through Washington to Aberdeen was approved in 1967, taking over much of US 410, which was decommissioned.