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Tillamook Rock Lighthouse
The Tillamook Rock is the most fascinating
lighthouse on the Oregon coast.
It is located on a little rock about a mile outside Ecola State park
between Seaside and Cannon Beach and is also known as Terrible Tilly
for its situation on a rock in the stormy Pacific Ocean.
Because of its terrible location it was the most expensive lighthouse
to operate in the United stated.
It operated from 1881 to 1957 when it was replaced by a little whistle buoy.
It was always battered from continuous bad weather, and the
light keepers lived a strange life in complete solitude.
After it was decommissioned, it changed hands many times,
and owners keep trying to make it a columbarium.. but with
little success...
Be sure to check out other
Oregon Coast Lighthouses
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