Location | Portland, Oregon, US |
---|---|
Coordinates | 45°39′02″N 122°45′53″W / 45.65056°N 122.76472°W |
Tower | |
Foundation | cluster of wooden pilings |
Construction | wood |
Automated | 1935 |
Height | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
Shape | octagon |
Light | |
First lit | 1895 |
Deactivated | 1935 |
Light source | 20 candlepower oil lantern on small platform attached 1' below N corner of main platform |
Characteristic | F R |
The Willamette River Light was a navigational lighthouse at the mouth of the Willamette River in the U.S. state of Oregon near Portland, which marked the confluence of the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. It existed as a lighthouse with keeper from 1895 to 1935,[1] and as an unattended light from 1935 onwards. The original building burned down in 1955.[2] The only visible remains of the station today are broken wooden pilings sticking out of the water near Kelley Point Park.[3]