Xianxi Oyster Barracks

Originally established as a coastal defense garrison in the early post-war era, the community eventually expanded to include more veterans and their families who were taught oyster aquaculture as a way of becoming self-sufficient. As the coast silted up in the late 1970s most families moves away and the community eventually became derelict. It was recognized for its heritage value in 2008 and has been cleaned up to attract tourists to this desolate part of coastal Taiwan. A stone monument reading “never forget our motherland” (毋忘在莒) still stands at the southern entrance to the community.