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Managing Organization:
Cape Blanco Heritage Society
Telephone:
541-332-0521
Website: http://www.blm.gov/or/resources/heritage/culcapeblanco.htm
Contact Address Information:
PO Box 1132
Port Orford
Oregon,
97465,
Notes:
This is Oregon's oldest lighthouse tower. The Friends of Cape Blanco work for the preservation of this lighthouse, which is leased by the Coast Guard to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. A $220,000 restoration was completed in 2003. Tower Height: 59 Height of Focal Plane: 245 Characteristic and Range: White flash every 20 seconds. Description of Tower: White. conical brick tower.
This light is operational
Other Buildings?
Duplex house, garage, communications building, visitor center. Date Established: 1870 Date Present Tower Built: 1870 Date Automated: 1980 Optics: 1870: First order Fresnel lens; 1936: Second order Fresnel lens (still in use). Current Use: Active aid to navigation. Open To Public? Yes. Directions:
Cape Blanco is about five miles northwest of Port Orford and 60 miles north of the Oregon/California border. Guided tours of the tower and lantern room are available every day (except Mondays, other than Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day) from April through October from 10 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. Listed on the
National Register of Historic Places Keepers: Harvey B. Burnap (1870-1874); Nathan Cook (first assistant keeper, 1870-1873); Joseph Bond (second assistant keeper, 1870-1873); Charles W. Tracey (first assistant keeper, 1873-1874); Elam Bond (second assistant keeper, 1873-1874); Charles W. Tracey (1874); John J. McBride (second assistant keeper, 1874-1875); William H. Sullivan (second assistant keeper, 1875-1876); Charles H. Pierce [S. P. Pierce?] (1874-1883); Elam Bond (first assistant keeper, 1874-1875); John J. McBride (first assistant keeper, 1875); Charles E. Geiger (first assistant keeper, 1875-1876); James Langlois (first assistant keeper, 1876-1883); James W. Crew (first assistant keeper, 1883-1884); James S. Langlois (1883-1918); August Miller (first assistant keeper, 1884-1888); Thomas Coats (second assistant keeper, 1876-1877); Frank M. Plummer (second assistant keeper, 1877-1878); Frank T. Meyers (second assistant keeper, 1878); Chandler F. Smart (second assistant keeper, 1878-1880); John P. Goodman (first assistant keeper, 1888-1889); James W. Crew (second assistant keeper, 1880-1883); August Miller (second assistant keeper, 1884); Edward Scannell (second assistant keeper, 1884-1886); John P. Goodman (second assistant keeper, 1886-1887); Anthony W. Miller (second assistant keeper, 1887-1888); James S. Hughes (second assistant keeper, 1888-1889); Thomas J. Stitt (second assistant keeper, 1890-1897); James S. Hughes (first assistant keeper, 1889-1918); Isadore P. Fahy (second assistant keeper, 1897-1901); Oscar Wiren (second assistant keeper, 1901-1903); William Denning; Mabel E. Bretherton (second assistant keeper, 1903-1906); Otto Heins (second assistant keeper, 1905-1907); Frederick Amundsen (c. 1905); James Hughes (?, served for 38 years); Ezra E. Marr (second assistant keeper, 1907-1912); Walter S. Bantz (second assistant keeper, 1913-1915); Ralph J. Nead (second assistant keeper, (second assistant keeper, 1915-1917); George E. McGinitie (first assistant keeper, 1918 –1919); James S. Hughes (1918-1926); William H. Taylor (second assistant keeper, 1919); Walter Mabin (first assistant keeper, 1921-1926); Raymond Bay (second assistant keeper, 1921); Eugene O. Hayward (first assistant keeper, 1926-1930); Walter Mabin (1926-1933); John B. Bray (second assistant keeper, 1926-1933); Frank H. Story (first assistant keeper, 1932-1933); Charles Mykol (first assistant keeper, 1933-1934); Orlo E. Hayward (1933-c. 1941); Albert G. Anderson (first assistant keeper, 1939-1950).
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