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Yaquina Head Lighthouse
The Yaquina Head Lighthouse was built over a two-year period from 1871 to 1873 culminating in its first lighting on the evening of August 20, 1873. The lighthouse was constructed under the auspices of the U.S. Light House Service, Department of the Treasury. The lighthouse design was similar to other lighthouses constructed by the Light House Service during the same 1870s time period featuring cavity-walled brick towers and almost identical ironwork, watch rooms and lanterns. This reusable approach allowed the Light House Service to reduce design and construction costs by utilizing standards as well as providing access to many materials needed for construction that were not readily available within the local market area of the lighthouse station. For example, the marble floors installed in the oil house and the tower’s rotunda floor came from Alaska, the bricks for the lighthouse came from San Rafael California, I-Beams used in the tower were sourced from the Philadelphia Iron Works, Staircase Metalwork and Vault Plates purchased from Portland, Oregon and the first order Fresnel Lens was bought and shipped from Paris, France. Today, the only remaining structure left at the lighthouse station is the lighthouse tower and the adjoining oil house. The original rooms of the oil house were used for storing the lard oil used for the lantern plus for office space for the keepers to maintain their required logs of operation. While the outbuildings are no longer present, the station at one time or another had residential dwellings for housing the keepers and their families, oil storage rooms for holding kerosene supplies, an outhouse, a garage, a barn, a fenced area for raising livestock, a pen for pigs, a chicken coop, and a cistern for water storage. In addition the station had areas of white picket fences to provide safety for families and visitors, and a local garden for augmenting their food supplies. Also in the history of the station, a radio tower was set up near the lighthouse until the radio communication gear was moved east up to Communications Hill within the park.
Photo looking west over the Yaquina Head Area together with the highway intersection located on the east side providing a connection point to Highway 101 and for gaining access entry into the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area BLM Park Facility.
Photo of the Yaquina Head Lighthouse and its adjoining oil house, the only remaining structures left from the original construction period of 1871 to 1873 when the lighthouse station was built by the U.S. Light House Service, Department of the Treasury.
Photo of the Yaquina Head Lighthouse, one of the Pacific Coast’s finest towering lights, built by the Light House Service in the 1870’s and constructed using a similar lighthouse design as found in other lighthouses constructed in the same time period.


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