Ediz Hook Lighthouse was a lighthouse in

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. Originally constructed in 1865, the lighthouse structure was later replaced in 1908 by a new structure, and finally in 1946 by an automated beacon on the

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air station on the end of Ediz Hook.

History

Ediz Hook Ediz Hook is a sand spit that extends from northern shore of the Olympic Peninsula at Port Angeles in northcentral Clallam County, Washington, USA, northeasterly into the Strait of Juan de Fuca, located about west of the larger Dungeness Spit. ...

is a three-mile-long sand spit that juts north and east into the

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and forms the natural harbor at Port Angeles. Private operators built navigational warning fires on the spit as early as 1861. The first Ediz Hook lighthouse was built near the tip of the spit in 1865. It was a two-story, schoolhouse-type building with a lighthouse tower arising at one end of its gabled roof. Its first keeper was George Smith, the father of Port Angeles's prime promoter, Victor Smith. In 1908, a second Ediz Hook lighthouse was constructed near the first lighthouse, with the two buildings existing in close proximity to each other. The new lighthouse used the same Carl W. Leick design employed at

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's Cape Arago Light. After taking over the spit for the

Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles US Coast Guard Air Station Sector Field Office Port Angeles is located at the end of the Ediz Hook peninsula in Port Angeles, Washington. History The Coast Guard's presence in Port Angeles began on August 1, 1862 with the arrival of the S ...

, the Coast Guard deactivated the lighthouse in 1946 and replaced it with a skeletal communications tower. The site's original lighthouse was demolished in 1939. The light tower of the 1908 keeper's house was removed when the structure was relocated to Fourth and Albert streets in Port Angeles where it has been a private residence since 1946.

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* {{authority control Lighthouses completed in 1865 Lighthouses completed in 1908 Lighthouses in Washington (state) Transportation buildings and structures in Clallam County, Washington 1865 establishments in Washington Territory