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West Coast Lighthouse Books !	When the United States acquired California at the end of the Mexican War, and obtained complete possession of the Oregon Territory from England in the treaty of 1846, there was not a single lighthouse or for that matter, not a single aid to navigation from the southernmost tip of California to the northernmost tip of Washington... there never had been one.  This area of the country had no practice for the location or design of the lighthouses, dwellings or outbuildings.  The Lighthouse Service reacted and decided to act upon it's own experiences when starting their plans for the construction of the lights that were to protect these rocky and treacherous 1300 approximate miles of coastlines.  The design of the lighthouses was to be modeled after the New England lighthouses. Congress was quick to authorize lighthouses for the West Coast.  In 1848, the act for establishing the territory of Oregon provided for lighthouses at Cape Disappointment and New Dungeness, as well as for buoys in the Columbia River and in Astoria Harbor.  At this point Congress concluded that perhaps someone should look the sites over to determine if it was necessary to put lighthouses at those two places then selected the Coast Survey to make the decision as well as recommend sites for other lighthouses along the West Coast.  In time, as a result of the recommendations by the Coast Survey and it's members, Congress authorized lighthouses to be constructed at Fort Point, Fort Bonita, Alcatraz Island, Point Pinos, Point Loma, Santa Barbara, Point Conception, The Farallon Islands, Humboldt Harbor, Crescent City, Smith Island, Cape Flattery, Willapa Bay, Umpqua River, New Dungeness and Cape Disappointment.  Between the years of 1852 and 1858, the Lighthouse Board erected these 16 lighthouses, the first lighthouses on the West Coast.
	Washington Lighthouses Books Available !
Get Your Books Here	The links below may take you to a different site on the internet. Admiralty Head Alki Point Browns Point Light Cape Disappointment Cattle Point Dofflemyer Point Light Lime Kiln Light Marrostone Point Mukilteo Lighthouse New Dungeness North Head Point No Point Point Robinson Point Wilson Turn Point West Point Lighthouse Westport
	Oregon Lighthouses Books Available !
	The links below may take your a different site on the internet. Cape Blanco Cape Arago Cape Arago #2 Cape Meares Light Coquille River Light Heceta Head Light Tillamook Head Umpqua River Light Yaquina Bay Light Yaquina Head
	California Lighthouses Books Available !
	The links below may take your a different site on the internet. Alcatraz Light Anacapa Island Battery Point Light East Brother Light Fort Point LA Harbor (Angels Gate) Montara Light Old Point Loma Oxnard Harbour Piedras Blancas Pigeon Point Light Point Arena Light Point Bonita Light Point Cabrillo Point Fermin Point Loma Point Montara Point Pinos Light Point Reyes Light Point Sur Light Pt. Vicente Light Port Hueneme San Luis Obispo Santa Cruz Light St.George lighthouse
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