Phone photo 1892

Willapa Bay and Tokeland as seen from Bruceport, Washington

Phone photo 924

Apparently this sign is the only physical proof of the one-time existence of Bruceport, Washington. The historical marker reads:

The deserted site of a famous pioneer village, once a county seat, 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