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The West Point Light, also known as the Discovery Park Lighthouse, is an active aid to navigation on Seattle, Washington's West Point, which juts into Puget Sound and marks the northern extent of Elliott Bay. [3] [4] The lighthouse is similar in design to the Point No Point Light and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 ...
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This is a list of all lighthouses in the U.S. state of Washington as identified by the United States Coast Guard. [1] There are eighteen active lights in the state; three are standing but inactive, three were supplanted by automated towers, and two have been completely demolished. Two lights, one of them still active, serve as museums.
Alki Point Light ; Location: West Seattle, Washington: Coordinates: 1]: Tower; Constructed: 1913: Foundation: Concrete: Construction: Masonry: Automated: 1984: Height: 37 feet (11 m) (39 feet (12 m) above sea level): Shape: Octagonal: Markings: White with red and black trim: Light; First lit: 1913: Focal height: 12 m (39 ft) : Lens: Fourth order Fresnel lens (removed), VRB-25 (current): Range ...
Light Vessel Number 83 (LV-83) Swiftsure is a lightship and museum ship owned by Northwest Seaport in Seattle, Washington.Launched in 1904 at Camden, New Jersey and in active service until 1960 after serving on all five of the American west coast's lightship stations, it is the oldest surviving lightship in the United States, the only one still fitted with its original steam engine, and the ...
At the point itself is the 1881 West Point Lighthouse, the first staffed light station on Puget Sound. Just to the east is the West Point Treatment Plant, and beyond that, Discovery Park, formerly the U.S. Army's Fort Lawton. The original Lushootseed name for West Point, paq̓ac̓aɬčuʔ, means "brush spread over water."
Articles about lighthouses in the U.S. state of Washington. For a manually maintained list, complete with yet-to-be-written articles, ... Lighthouses in Seattle (2 P) L.
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