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Crystal City Internment Camp, located near Crystal City, Texas, was a place of confinement for people of Japanese, German, and Italian descent during World War II, and has been variously described as a detention facility or a concentration camp. [2] The camp, which was originally designed to hold 3,500 people, opened in December 1943 and was ...
v. t. e. Internment of German resident aliens and German-American citizens occurred in the United States during the periods of World War I and World War II. During World War II, the legal basis for this detention was under Presidential Proclamation 2526, made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the authority of the Alien Enemies Act.
Camp Ramblewood [187] in Darlington is available for groups wishing to host clothing-optional events. Maryland Area Naturist Association, [188] a family nudist club in Baltimore; Maryland Health Society [189] in Davidsonville, a privately-owned nudist club; Pine Tree Associates [190] in Annapolis, a cooperatively-owned family nudist club
Echo Hill Ranch. Echo Hill Ranch is a summer ranch camp of about 400 acres (1.6 km 2) in the Texas Hill Country. The ranch was founded in 1953 by Dr. S. Thomas Friedman and Minnie Samet Friedman. It is located south of Kerrville near Medina. Echo Hill was founded as a noncompetitive, child-centered ranch camp for boys and girls ages 6–14.
Circle Ten Council is a Boy Scouts of America (BSA) chartered council in central north Texas and a portion of Oklahoma.It encompasses all or parts of: Camp, Collin, Dallas, Delta, Ellis, Fannin, Franklin, Grayson, Henderson, Hopkins, Hunt, Kaufman, Lamar, Morris, Navarro, Rains, Red River, Rockwall, Titus, and Van Zandt counties in Texas as well as Bryan, Choctaw, McCurtain, and Pushmataha ...
Family detention is the detention of multiple family members together in an immigration detention context. In the U.S. they are referred to as family detention camps,[1] family detention centers,[2] or family detention facilities.[3] Families crossing the United States border without a visa or other papers demonstrating they are admissible to ...
Tex Robertson. / 30.739785; -98.384538. Julian "Tex" Robertson (April 23, 1909 – August 27, 2007) was an American swimmer and water polo player and a swimming coach for the University of Texas. He invented a flying disk game similar to the Frisbee. [1]
Sketches of Camp Ford drawn by James S. McClain between May 3, 1864, and May 27, 1865. Multiple Union soldiers who were held as POWs at Camp Ford documented their confinement through diaries kept during their time there. One such diary was created by James S. McClain, who had been captured on May 3, 1864, and was held until the final exchange ...