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Lighthouse Inspection Reports Database
Cape Meares Light Station - 1910
Premises page 1 of 2
Reserved by executive order.
05/28/1899
232.84 Acres
About 12 acres enclosed by wire & woven wire fence.
Loamy.
About 50'
Yard around dwellings is inclosed w picket fence; garden is inclosed w woven wire fence.
A dirt road about 2 M long leads to small boat landing on Tillamook Bay known as
Barnegat.
By team from Tillamook City or by launch or small boat to landing in bay, then on foot to
station.
4-1/2 M to junction of lighthouse road w county road leading to Tillamook.
There is Post Office (Barnegat) at the station.
Netarts - 6 M; Tillamook - 9M
None beyond Tillamook City
Hire a team from Tillamook City - 9 M, also by launch from same place to Barnegat - 2 M from station.
Tower
1
1890
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