Project Grant P24AP01822

The $1,277,100.82 federal Project Grant award to the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, under the National Park Service's Preservation of Japanese American Confinement Sites (CFDA 15.933) program, will support the final phase of restoration and stabilization work on the historic root cellar at the Heart Mountain incarceration site in Wyoming. The grant enables the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, a non-profit organization, to safely open the restored root cellar to the public by Fall 2025. The root cellar, built by Japanese American incarcerees in 1943, will help interpret the history of agriculture and the ingenuity of incarceree farmers who successfully cultivated nearly 2,000 acres of farmland during their incarceration. This project builds on previous JACS grant funding that supported earlier stabilization and archaeological work at the site.