Editing Lone Pine, California (section)

===Manzanar National Historic Site===
The [[Manzanar National Historic Site]] (formerly the Manzanar War Relocation Center), a [[Japanese American internment]] camp during [[World War II]], is located on Highway 395 north of Lone Pine and south of [[Independence, California|Independence]]. Manzanar (which means "apple orchard" in Spanish) is the most infamous of the 10 camps in which [[Japanese Americans]], both citizens (including natural-born Americans) and resident aliens, were encamped during World War II.  Manzanar has been identified as the best preserved of these camps by the [[United States National Park Service]] which maintains and is restoring the site as a [[U.S. National Historic Site]].