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The Browns Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse located near Tacoma on Browns Point at the east entrance to Puget Sound's Commencement Bay, Pierce County, Washington.[3]

History

Cupy the first light station on Browns Point, erected in 1887, consisted of a white light lens lantern on a white post that stood 12 feet (3.7 m) above sea level and 50 yards from the low tide shoreline.[4] A wood-frame lighthouse and separate keepers cottage were built in 1901. The current lighthouse was built in 1933 and automated in 1963.[5] The lighthouse plus the original keeper's cottage, oil house and boathouse are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[6]

Public access

The Points Northeast Historical Society rents out the keeper's cottage with the renter serving as an honorary lightkeeper who conducts lighthouse tours on Saturday afternoons.[7] The Society also operates two museums by the lighthouse: the History Center with changing history exhibits and the Boat House Museum with displays of a replica surfboat and maritime artifacts.[8][9] The lighthouse is on the grounds of Browns Point Lighthouse Park which offers picnicking and scenic vistas of sea traffic and mountains.[10]

References

  1. ^ "13th Coast Guard District Lighthouses". 13th Coast Guard District. January 1996. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
  2. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  3. ^ "Browns Point Light". Inventory of Historic Light Stations: Washington Lighthouses. National Park Service. Archived from the original on April 7, 2004. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
  4. ^ "History of Browns Point Lighthouse Park". Metro Parks Tacoma. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
  5. ^ "Historic Light Station Information & Photography: Washington". U.S. Coast Guard. November 17, 2014. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
  6. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form". National Park Service. February 16, 1989. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
  7. ^ "Light Keeper's Cottage Rental". Points Northeast Historical Society. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
  8. ^ "Browns Point, WA". Lighthousefriends. Archived from the original on April 27, 2015. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
  9. ^ "Browns Point Lighthouse". Seattle and Sound. Archived from the original on April 3, 2015. Retrieved April 20, 2015.

More reading

  • Sharlene Nelson & Ted Nelson (1998). Umbrella Guide to Washington Lighthouses. Epicenter Press. ISBN 9780945397700.

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