Triple Nickles

The board tells Malvin Brown's death and stops there. His fellow jumpers carried his body fifteen miles to the nearest road from the jump spot near Lemon Butte, a two-acre opening ringed by trees up to two hundred feet tall. He died on August 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, on ground then in the Siskiyou National Forest and since moved into the Umpqua. A newer marker stands near the weathered 1945 original, and Oregon Black Pioneers has sought a National Register listing for the site. His smokejumper obituary gives his birth year as 1920.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Oregon Caves — 14 mi
  A cave of marble rather than limestone, found in 1874 by a hunter who followed his dog in by matchlight and found his way out by the sound of a stream.
• Stout Memorial Grove — 30 mi
  A lumberman's memorial made of the kind of forest his company cut, kept open underneath by the river's floods.

More markers nearby

• A 3D Viewing Device — 14 mi
• Camp Lincoln — 31 mi
• Crescent City Plank and Turnpike Road — 31 mi