Main Gate and Sentry Post

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The larger sentry house, just inside the barbed wire perimeter and facing out onto Highway 395, was manned by Military Police personnel of the U.S. Army.
The smaller, inner sentry post was manned by the camp's internal civil police force, which consisted mostly of Japanese-American internees.
Both guard shacks, and a few other small stone structures at Manzanar, were built by Ryozo F. Kado, an interned stone mason.
Black and white photo made by Ansel Adams during the winter of 1943-1944 shows the entrance to Manzanar as seen from Highway 395, with the police station house in the background.
During ceremonies at the return "pilgrimage" of former internees on 14 April 1973, a bronze plaque was placed on the rock sentry house nearest the highway by the State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the Manzanar Committee and the Japanese American Citizens League. The plaque was installed by Ryozo F. Kado, an 83-year-old Issei who as an evacuee resident at Manzanar had supervised the two rock sentry houses and cemetery monument. For thise occasion, Kado re-assembled his seven-man internee crew.
With that Manzanar became California Registered Historic Site No.850.