Alki Point Lighthouse
by Joan Carroll
Title
Alki Point Lighthouse
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photograph
Description
Lucky for me it was a beautiful day, lucky for me it was low tide, lucky for me I had my lighthouse book to tell me how to get a good look at this lighthouse! This is the Alki Point Lighthouse, still in active service and a US Coast Guard property today. As such, you can't walk onto the lighthouse property on most days and the view from the road is limited. The view from the beach is great though! The Alki Point Light is located at Alki Point, at the southern entrance to Seattle's Elliott Bay. In 1887, the United States Lighthouse Board finally recognized the need for an official light and placed a lens-lantern atop a wooden post at the point. Several years later, the Lighthouse Service decided to upgrade the light and add a fog signal at the point. The present concrete fog signal building with the 37-foot octagonal tower was completed in 1913. The fourth-order Fresnel lens was eventually replaced by a modern optic during the 1960s. Fun fact: Alki, the Washington State Motto, is a Chinook Indian word meaning "by and by." In November of 1851, twenty-four people from the schooner Exact landed at present-day Alki Point and formed a colony. The settlers called their new home New York, however, when its growth was markedly slower than that of its east coast counterpart, the name was changed to New York-Alki. Today, the community is known simply as Alki. A monument commemorating the landing of the original colonists, which led to the development of the Seattle area, is found at the intersection of Alki Avenue and 63rd Avenue.
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July 4th, 2014
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