Built: 1908

Type: Square on fog signal bldg.

Height: 35 Feet

Status: Active

Location: San Juan Islands

Lens: Fourth order Fresnel / Present 300 mm Solar powered

Signal: Horn

Keepers: Edward Durgan

Notes: The Original light station was a post light and third class Daboll trumpet fog signal.  Beginning opertaion on november 30, 1893.  The light was used as Navigational aid to steamships traveling from Nanaimo, British Columbia to Alaska.

The lighthouse was improved in 1908 with a new for signal and a 38 foot tower which housed a fourth order Fresnel lens.  The light was automated in 1974.   The lighthouse is now part of  Patos Island state park.  The Fourth Order Fresnel lens, which was also used at Alki Point lighthouse, is on display at Admiralty head lighthouse in Washington.