Images of America- Lighthouses and Life-Saving on the Oregon Coast Island of O'ahu Edition Date: 14-Mar-1986

Edition Date: 14-Mar-1986

Last NTM: 14-Dec-2018

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Chart Image Size: 37⅛" x 31"

Images of America- Lighthouses and Life-Saving on the Oregon Coast Island of O'ahu Edition Date: 14-Mar-1986The Oregon Coast has been the site of shipwrecks even before Lewis and Clark's arrival in 1805. Even as the population grew, the federal government let the Oregon Coast go unguarded by lighthouses and lifesavers for decades. Economic and political pressures finally forced the government to build the first Oregon lighthouse in 1857 at the Umpqua River. The LifeSaving Service followed in 1878 with a station at the mouth of Coos Bay. Eventually, most of