The Hollering Place

Camp Castaway was a military errand run aground. The dragoons on the Captain Lincoln were bound for Port Orford, where settlers had fought the local people at Battle Rock the summer before, when the schooner beached on the North Spit in January 1852. For four months the Coos traded fresh food to them for silverware, biscuits and other goods. The camp's site was lost until the archaeologist Scott Byram found it in 2009, and a 2012 excavation joined by archaeologists from the Coos and Coquille tribes turned up the ship's nails and traces of the trading.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shore Acres State Park — 7.4 mi
  A timber family's clifftop estate whose mansion burned three months after its mistress died, whose larger replacement the state could not keep, and whose gardens it did.
• Bandon — 20 mi
  A town at the mouth of the Coquille built near the site of an 1854 massacre, named for a town in Ireland, and burned in 1936 by the Irish gorse its founder planted.

More markers nearby

• Coos Bay - Explore More — steps away
• Shifting Sands - Sand Dunes — steps away
• The Coos People — steps away
• Southern Oregon Coast Region — 3.7 mi