La Tuna Canyon Historical Site Voted Historical Status

A one-time Japanese internment camp located just outside Montrose was voted to be designated a historical marker this week by the L.A. City Council.

One acre of a 10 acre lot on the Verdugo Hills Golf Course will be set aside for a historical marker of the La Tuna Canyon Detention Center, according to an email sent out by the Volunteers Organized in Conserving the Environment (VOICE) group.

The local station KPCC, which covered the L.A. City Council hearing Tuesday, notes that the site once housed around 2,000 mostly Japanese-American detainees.  The story notes that a development company that owns the property still hopes to build a housing project on the rest of the land.

Read more about the site at KPCC or at Rafu Shimpo, an L.A.-based Japanese-American newspaper.