Camp Grant is a ghost town in Humboldt County located on the South Fork Eel River 2mi northeast of Weott and 3mi east of Dyerville. It was originally settled by Northern Sinkyone people, followed by a Union Army camp and later a logging and railroad support settlement for the construction of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad.HistoryThe area was formerly inhabited by Northern Sinkyone people whose main village, named IlhtcuntaHduñ (also Ltcuntdun) was 3mi downstream at the confluence of Bull Creek, later named Dyerville.In early 1850, half of the Josiah Gregg expedition, including Lewis K. Wood who would later found Arcata, California, passed through on local trails seeking their way back to San Francisco. The other half, including the dying Gregg, had tried to follow the coast road and failed. They left the Lost Coast along Bull Creek from about the present day location of Honeydew, California and passed this area on trails on their way to Clearlake although their exact route after leaving this area is unknown.
