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393: 54:, Company C, predecessors to the U.S. Cavalry) on board, and the ship's crew, survived the wreck and most of the cargo was salvaged. At the time no U.S. settlement was present at Coos Bay, so commanding officer Lt. Henry Stanton decided to establish the camp to protect the cargo until it could be transported to Fort Orford, some 50 miles south on the 58:. The troops and crew used spars, booms and sail cloth from the schooner to build tent structures for housing and for protecting the cargo from winter rains and blowing sand. They named the temporary post Camp Castaway. The camp endured for four months in the open dunes with help from Native Americans of the 78:
to excavate the site. Lead archaeologist Mark Tveskov of SOU concluded that the site was Camp Castaway based on the distinctive artifacts recovered. NOAA archaeologists Robert Schwemmer and James Delgado and historian John Cloud are also research team members. A full report of these excavations was
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archives in Maryland. It was subsequently designated Oregon archaeological site 35CS277. The site is located on land administered by the Bureau of Land Management, Coos Bay District. Following discovery of the site, BLM archaeologist Steve Samuels assembled a team from Southern Oregon University
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The archaeological remains of Camp Castaway were located by archaeologist Scott Byram during a survey in March, 2010, using 150-year-old archival records and maps he studied at the
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Castronuevo, Agnes F. 2012. Camp Castaway: Indians at First Sight. Published in Voice of CLUSI, September 2012, Issue 9, Vol. 13. Archived at Researchgate:
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Letter Report to Major O. Cross, Chief Quartermaster, Pacific Division, U.S. Army, San Francisco
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tribe who traded fresh foods to the soldiers for silverware, biscuits and other nonlocal goods.
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259576951_Camp_Castaway_Indians_at_First_Sight
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Triangulating Archaeological Landscapes: The U.S. Coast Survey in California, 1850-1895
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Camp Castaway (historical)
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Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians
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Index

Coos Bay
Oregon
San Francisco
Fort Orford
Port Orford
Cape Arago
1st Dragoons
Oregon Coast
Coos
United States Coast Survey
Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians
Coquille Indian Tribe
New Carissa
McArthur, Lewis A.
McArthur, Lewis L.
Oregon Geographic Names
Oregon Historical Society
ISBN
978-0875952772
"Contact and Settlement: Settlement Begins"
Oregon Historical Society
Oregon National Guard
"Forts - Camps - Roads 1805-1976"
Oregon State Archives


Pioneer History of Coos and Curry Counties, Oregon
McArthur, Lewis A.
McArthur, Lewis L.
Oregon Geographic Names

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