He also authored one of the Arcadia Publishing volumes from their popular Images of America series, Lighthouses and Life-Saving on the Oregon Coast. To learn more about the Life-Saving Services and their continued work as part of the Coast Guard, you really need to start with David Pinyerd’s master thesis from the University of Oregon which he has put online, The Preservation of Pre-World War II Coast Guard Architecture in Oregon. Both private lighthouses are just that, private. You can see the house sitting above the large Beachfront Inn on the south side of the harbor. It sits 141 feet above the sea with a light extending out to twelve miles. In 1999, another couple built a second private lighthouse above the Chetco River harbor – part of their residence. The house remains as a private residence, PELICAN BAY His light sits 110 feet above the sea and the halogen bulb light – taken from a Canadian Coast Guard light on Solander Island off the west coast of Vancouver Island – extends out to sixteen miles. Located on the north side of Cape Perpetua, most ocean traffic stays well of shore here because of the rocky nature. It was not his first attempt at a private lighthouse having built one earlier in the Puget Sound at Skunk Bay. He built this private house with its tower replicating a former British Columbia lighthouse on Fiddler Reef. James Gibbs had been a lighthouse keeper and a longtime maritime historian. PRIVATE IDEAS CLEFT OF THE ROCKSįor purposes of inclusion, the big house sprouting a private lighthouse tower just south of Yachats on US 101 also should list on Oregon Lighthouses, southern or northern, lists. The light still operates as a private aid to navigation – PATON. The duplex remains, leased out as a private bed and breakfast establishment. The light electrified in 1934 and the head keeper houseremoved. In this Coast Guard view, only the assistant keeper duplex is left. The cape was named in his honor though many mispronounce the correct name with the loss of the “z”. The forests a newer feature than first appears.īrunode Hezeta y Dudgoita, a Basque explorer in the service of Spain, sailed along the Oregon Coast in 1775. Lying right along the busy US 101 highway, the view from the roadside pullout to the south is especially dramatic with the forested headlands above. Heceta Head is probably the most photographed of all Oregon coastal lighthouses, northern or southern.
HECETA HEAD LIGHTHOUSE FIRST COMES THE IDEA The lighthouse is usually open for tours from the middle of May to the end of September, though covid has interrupted that.
Erosion on the foundation is a constant problem involving a large restorative effort in 2007. A solar-powered light went into the tower in 1991. A restoration program involving state and Army Corps of Engineers reversed years of damage. In 1963, Bullards Beach State Park included the lighthouse in its grounds. The Coquille River Lighthouse and Bandon beyond across the river are on the right. Panorama looking north up Bullard’s Beach on the left. The Society moved in for the next eighteen years in 1956. After the Guard moved out, the old lighthouse’s future appeared bleak until the Lincoln County Historical Society formed to save the house in 1948. The USCG used the building until 1933 – they put up the observation tower during that period. The Life-Saving Service merged with the Revenue Cutter Service to become the US Coast Guard in 1915. In 1906, the US Life-Saving Service put a crew into the old building. The home served as the construction engineer’s house. The lighthouse was empty until the North Jetty on the entrance to Yaquina Bay was being built between 18. With the closure, Pierce moved along with his seven children to serve at Cape Blanco for another ten years.
Captain Pierce, a former captain in the Union army, served as head keeper here in the only lighthouse-keeper house combination along the Oregon Coast – it is also the only wooden lighthouse on the coast. The oldest structure in Newport, the lighthouse only operated for three years before Yaquina Head replaced it. Yaquina Bay Lighthouse before restoration.
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