North Head Light - History

History

The Cape Disappointment Lighthouse, installed in 1856, was obscured to ships approaching from the north by the headland extending southwest from the light. To correct this, a lighthouse was built at North Head, which faces the ocean directly and would be clearly visible to ships traveling from the north. The 65-foot (20 m) tower stood on a 130-foot (40 m) cliff. The lens was the first-order lens from Cape Disappointment, and was first lit in 1898. In 1935, the first-order lens was replaced by a fourth-order lens. That lens was eventually replaced by an aerobeacon in the 1950s, and later by a modern optic mounted outside the tower. The light was automated in 1961. (Nelson p. 112) Today the lighthouse is part of Cape Disappointment State Park.

Lighthouses of Washington
  • Admiralty Head Light
  • Alki Point Light
  • Browns Point Light
  • Burrows Island Light
  • Cape Disappointment Light
  • Cape Flattery Light
  • Cattle Point Light
  • Destruction Island Light
  • Dofflemyer Point Light
  • Ediz Hook Light
  • Grays Harbor Light
  • Lime Kiln Light
  • Marrowstone Point Light
  • Mukilteo Light
  • New Dungeness Light
  • North Head Light
  • Patos Island Light
  • Point No Point Light
  • Point Roberts Light
  • Point Robinson Light
  • Point Wilson Light
  • Semiahmoo Harbor Light
  • Slip Point Light
  • Smith Island Light
  • Turn Point Light
  • West Point Light


This article relating to a United States lighthouse is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
This article about a building or structure in the U.S. state of Washington is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Read more about this topic:  North Head Light

Famous quotes containing the word history:

    “Every member of the family of the future will be a producer of some kind and in some degree. The only one who will have the right of exemption will be the mother ...”
    —Ruth C. D. Havens, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 13, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)

    “We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

    “Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.”
    —Pierre Bayle (1647–1706)