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Lighthouse History
Built: 1890 Type: Octagonal Tower Height: 38 ft (shortest lighthouse in the state) Status: Non-Active Location: Tillamook Elevation: 217 Deactivated: 1963 Lens: 1st order Fresnel eight sided Lens equipped with 4 Bulls-eye panels and 4 drum panels Keepers: First Keeper Anthony Miller. George Hunt and Augusta Hunt - Current US. Coast Guard Notes: Construction of the
lighthouse began in 1888. The first-order Fresnel lens was shipped from
France around Cape Horn to Cape Meares. A hand-operated crane made from
local spruce trees was used to lift the crates containing the prisms of
the
one-ton lens up the 200 foot cliff to the tower. The tower is made of sheet
iron lined with bricks, the only one of its kind on the Oregon coast.
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