This description is of landing materials for maintenance, using a small boat to go back and forth to the tender. Imagine
what landing the materials to build the original lighthouse must have involved. Just carting materials to this offshore location
would have been time consuming.
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Lighthouse Maps
Thirteenth Lighthouse District
Can you locate Tillamook Rock Lighthouse on this map? What was the light's characteristic?
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Source: 1881 Annual Report of the U.S. Light-House Board
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This Reader's Guide is intended to be used with Lighthouses Short and Tall, a book for readers 11 and up written by Mary Louise and Candace Clifford. It is available from the publisher,
Cypress Communications, by using their book order form.
