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Yaquina Bay Lighthouse - Lighthouse Time Period Exhibits
One of the highlights in visiting the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse is the self-guided tour of the exhibit areas. The first and only keeper assigned duty to the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse Station was Charles Peirce. Charles Peirce and his wife Sarah, and their six children living at home (later a seventh child was born in Newport) were transferred from the Cape Blanco Station to the new station. Due to the size of Peirce’s family, the lighthouse floorplan on the second level was changed to accommodate more chamber (bedroom) rooms during the original construction period. The dwelling’s basement now houses the Interpretive Store and a media room running a short video on the history of both Yaquina Lighthouses. The main level includes the front entryway, a wooden stairwell system leading to the next level above and below, a dining room, a kitchen and a pantry, a parlor, and a room called the oil room. The time period exhibits are tastefully done and feature many antiques to provide the visitor with a sense of the living conditions experienced by the Peirce Family during their three-year stay from 1871 to 1874. The Parlor Exhibit offers insight into how the family might have relaxed and features wonderful antique furniture and an old-fashioned organ pump with a picture of Charles Peirce on the mantle. Other exhibits include displays on the dining room, the pantry and the kitchen area. The kitchen was the only room in the dwelling with running water, which was accessed from a hand pump mounted near the kitchen sink and connected to a rain-fed cistern located outside.
Photo of the Parlor Room Exhibit on the main level of the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse featuring time period antiques and an interpretive placard on the possible uses of the room by the Charles and Sarah Peirce family, the first and only keeper to occupy the dwelling.
Photo of the Parlor Room Exhibit found at the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse featuring an old-fashioned pump organ with a picture of Charles Peirce on the mantle, bringing back memories of their family and friends joining in a sing along to the heat of a fire’s glow.
Photo of the Parlor Room Exhibit located at the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse providing a step back in time in how the keeper and his family may have spent their time relaxing including using the room as a library study with books found in the traveling book library.
Photo of the Kitchen Exhibit found at the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse providing the visitor with a sense of the living conditions that the Peirce Family experienced during their stay and the only room in the dwelling with running water via a hand pump mounted near the sink.


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