Lighthouse History
Built: 1906
Type: Octagonal Attached
to Fog Signal Building
Height: 38 ft
Status: Active
Location: Mukilteo
Deactivated:
Signal: Duboll trumpet
Lens: Fresnel / Present Fourth
Order Fresnel
Keepers: P. N. "Peter" Christianson
Notes: Built on a 2.6 acre
site the 38 foot tall lighthouse was equipped with a fourth order Fresnel
lens.
The station consisted of
the combination tower and fog signal building sporting a Daboll trumpet,
two keepers dwellings, and a windmill over a well which supplied water
for the town of Mukilteo.
The light was lit for the
first time on March 1, 1906. Electricity reached the station in 1927,
at that time the original revolving Fresnel lens was replaced with a fixed
lens.
Mukilteos lens and fog signal
were automated in 1979, and in 1981, a remote fog sensor was installed.
The size of the station
was reduced in 1954 one acre from the it southwest corner was transferred
from the Coast Guard to Washington state park to become part of Mukilteo
state park. The public gained access to the lighthouse in 1991.
Ownership of the tower and
dwellings was turned over to the city of Mukilteo by the Coast Guard in
2001. Navigational equipment is still maintained by the Coast Guard. |