3114. (photo) U.S. Life-Saving Station and Lighthouse, Coos Bay (Cape Arago), Oregon c.1909.
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3114. (photo) U.S. Life-Saving Station and Lighthouse, Coos Bay (Cape Arago), Oregon c.1909.
3114. (photo) U.S. Life-Saving Station and Lighthouse, Coos Bay (Cape Arago), Oregon c.1909. Superb clear, close photo shows great detail of the 1875-Type life-saving station near Coos Bay, Oregon. This was the first life saving station on the Oregon Coast, built in late 1878, two miles southwest of Cape Arago. Note that the station was built high on wood piles to protect it from the tides. The station, a rather quiet place without much rescue activity, had 14 keepers in 37 years, the highest turnover rate on the West Coast. The station was initially reached by a platform suspended from a high cable. The lighthouse at this site was built to replace the lighthouse at the Umpqua River. Congress appropriated $15,000 on July 2, 1864 for the light, and the first Cape Arago Lighthouse was illuminated on November 1, 1866. When the fog signal had been in operation for just over ten years, erosion on the point endangered the lighthouse and fog signal building. As a replacement, a lighthouse, consisting of a wood-frame fog signal building with an attached octagonal tower, seen here, was built near the keeper’s duplex using a $20,000 appropriation made on March 4, 1907. Great detailed view includes life-saving station, lighthouse and fog-signal building, and dwelling on the extremely rocky site. Photo is unusually clear and with great detail, on postcard paper. 3 ½” x 5 ½”. Postmarked 1909. (VG+). $68.