Walkway to Cape Meares Lighthouse
by Joan Carroll
Title
Walkway to Cape Meares Lighthouse
Artist
Joan Carroll
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Photograph - Digital Art
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Cape Meares Lighthouse is the shortest one along the Oregon coast, standing only 34' tall! And when you visit Cape Meares, you walk from a parking lot DOWN a sloping pathway to the lighthouse, and the lighthouse sits even farther below on a ledge cut from solid rock so that you get this eyeball-to-lens view of the Fresnel lens. The lens was created in Paris in 1888 and had been shipped around the tip of South America to Oregon, where a hand-operated crane made from local spruce trees was used to lift the crates containing the prisms of the one-ton lens up the 200 foot cliff to the tower. It sits in a tower made of sheet iron lined with bricks, and is the only one of its kind on the Oregon Coast. The structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. The Coast Guard turned off Cape Meares Light on Wednesday June 25, 2014, 124 years after the cape was first illuminated, but it is still open to the public to visit.
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August 20th, 2015
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