Cape Blanco juts out one-and-a-half miles into the Pacific Ocean from Oregon’s southern coast and terminates in a large headland with 200-foot cliffs along most of its perimeter. These chalky, white cliffs prompted early Spanish explorers to name this landmark, which is the most westerly point in Oregon, Cape Blanco or White Cape.

He was born at Cape Blanco Lighthouse, where his father served as principal keeper for thirty-five years. Choosing the same career for himself, Oscar accepted his first assignment in 1905 to Cape Arago Lighthouse, where met his wife, Marie Amundsen, daughter of the principal keeper.

Light List. Map. Cape Arago Charleston, OR Cape Blanco Port Orford, OR Cape Meares Cape Meares, OR. Cleft of the Rock (Cape Perpetua) Yachats, OR Coquille River (Bandon) Bandon, OR Desdemona Sands Astoria, OR. Heceta Head Florence, OR Lightship Columbia WLV 604 Astoria, OR Point Adams

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Battery Point Lighthouse, like most of the original eight, was built in a Cape Cod style, with a central brick tower protruding from the roof of a one-and-a-half-story stone keeper’s dwelling. The fourth-order Fresnel lens in the lantern room first illuminated the night sky at Crescent City on December 10, 1856.

The sixteen-sided, double-balconied Cape Mendocino Lighthouse was bolted to a concrete pad at a height of 422 feet above the sea, making it one of the highest lighthouses in the United States. In fact, after the original Point Loma Lighthouse was discontinued in 1891, Cape Mendocino became the highest lighthouse in the country.

The short lighthouse at Cap Blanc overlooks the famed Rocher Perce (Pierced Rock) and Ile Bonaventure. Rocher Perce, one and a half miles to the north of the cape, was named in 1604 by Samuel Champlain, for the small arch at the base of the …

The first-order, Louis Sautter & Co. Fresnel lens, which was transferred from Cape Disappointment Lighthouse, was lit for the first time on May 16, 1898. Since North Head is only two miles north of Cape Disappointment, the two lights needed distinct signatures.

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In 1888, the Lighthouse Board recommended that first-order lighthouses be constructed at Heceta Head and Umpqua River to light the dark gap that existed in the ninety miles of coastline between the lighthouses at Cape Arago and Yaquina Head.