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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.


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