The other day I posted an image from Google Earth that revealed the ghostly imprint of the WWII-era Topaz Relocation Center.
I've done a little snooping and now ee that Topaz is not the only wartime Japanese American incarceration facility whose footprint remains visible from the sky. Here is the town of Granada, in eastern Colorado. The street grid of the Granada (a/k/a "Amache") Relocation Center is plainly visible in the bottom left quadrant of the image, centered around the blue square.
Amazing. Do you have any particular idea of why Google Earth displays these "emanations"?
Posted by: Daniel S. Goldberg | February 16, 2010 at 11:10 AM
Google Earth displays them because they're actually still there. What I mean is that the road grid of the camp is still there. All of the buildings and equipment were moved off the site in the 1940s, but the street grid remains. It's the desert, and there's nothing to wash the streets away and there's nothing to grow over them. So the grid just stays there.
Posted by: Eric Muller | February 16, 2010 at 11:22 AM
Amazing, truly. Thanks much for the posts and the information.
Posted by: Daniel S. Goldberg | February 16, 2010 at 11:57 AM
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