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Bruceville - Bruceport WA6 |
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 Picture Courtesy of Washington State Department of Transportation
The deserted site of a famous pioneer village, once a county set, is one mile northward on Willapa Bay, formerly called Shoalwater Bay. The crew of the oyster schooner "Robert Bruce" settled here in December 1851; after that craft had burned crewmen built cabins, filed land claims, and named the settlement "Bruceville." It was changed to Bruceport in 1854. This site recalls the lively oyster industry of 1851-1880, when enormous quantities of native oysters were gathered by local Indians and loaded aboard schooners for San Francisco.
Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission
Wahsington State Depratment of Transportation
SR101, 6 1/2 miles south of South Bend; Pacific Coast Scenic Byway. Pacific County Washington
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