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CAPE ARAGO (CAPE GREGORY) LIGHT
State: OREGON
Location: GREGORY POINT / SOUTHWEST OF COOS BAY ENTRANCE
Nearest City: CHARLESTON
County: COOS
U.S.C.G. District: 13
Year Station Established: 1866
Existing Historic Tower:
• Year Light First Lit: 1934
• Is the Light Operational? NO
• Date Deactivated: 2006
• Automated: 1966
• Foundation Materials: CONCRETE
• Construction Materials: REINFORCED CONCRETE
• Markings/Patterns: WHITE TOWER, GREEN LANTERN, RED DOME
• Shape: OCTAGONAL ATTACHED TO FOG SIGNAL BD
• Relationship to Other Structures: ATTACHED
• Tower Height: 44
• Original Optic: FOURTH ORDER, FRESNEL
• Year Original Lens Installed: 1866
• Modern Optic: VRB-25, SOLAR POWERED
• Year Modern Lens Installed: 1998
• Height of Focal Plane: 100
• Fresnel Lens Disposition: FRESNEL LENS ON DISPLAY BY U.S. COAST GUARD GROUP NORTH BEND
• Has tower been moved? NO
Previous Tower(s):
• 1. Construction Date: 1866
• Description: OCTAGONAL WROUGHT IRON TOWER AND LANTERN, PAINTED WHITE WITH DOME OF LANTERN PAINTED RED
• Fate/Disposition: BLOWN UP WITH DYNAMITE 1936
• 2. Construction Date: 1908
• Description: OCTAGONAL WOOD FRAME BUILDING
• Fate/Disposition: MOVED FURTHER EAST A SHORT DISTANCE, TOWER REMOVED, SERVED AS KEEPERS QUARTERS UNTIL RAZED IN 1960S
Modern Tower? NO
Existing Sound Signal Building? YES
• Year Constructed: 1934
• Construction Materials: CONCRETE
• Architectural Style: ATTACHED TO TOWER
• Fog Signal Type: DIAPHRAM HORN (FA 232)
Existing Keepers Quarters? NO RAZED 1957
• Year Constructed: 1896
• Number of Stories: 1.5
• Architectural Style: DUPLEX
• Construction Materials: WOOD FRAME
Other Structures: 3 SEALED CISTERNS, HIGH FOOT BRIDGE (ORIGINALLY CONSTRUCTED 1898), WHIP ANTENNA; DESTROYED: 1866 STORAGE SHEDS; WALKWAY; TRAMWAY; 1880 U.S. LIFESAVING SERVICE BOATHOUSE & CREW QUARTERS; 1870S BOATHOUSE; 1886 BARN; BRIDGES; 1891 CABLE TRAMWAY ISLAND TERMINAL HOUSE; STORAGE SHED; 1896 KEEPERS QUARTERS; 1898 OIL HOUSE
Current Use: NONE
Owner/Manager: U.S. COAST GUARD
Open to the Public? NO
National Register Status: LISTED; Reference #73002338
Name of Listing: CAPE ARAGO LIGHTHOUSE (LIGHTHOUSE STATIONS OF OREGON MPS)
On State List/Inventory? YES; Year Listed: 1970
Miscellaneous:
USCG REPAINTED EXTERIOR IN 1998 AND MADE REPAIRS. LIGHT WAS DEACTIVATED ON JANUARY 1, 2006.
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