Point No Point Lighthouse Sunset Photograph by Ronda Broatch

Point No Point Lighthouse Sunset

by Ronda Broatch

Canvas Print

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Framed Print

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Art Print

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Poster

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Metal Print

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Acrylic Print

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Wood Print

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Greeting Card

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iPhone Case

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Title

Point No Point Lighthouse Sunset

Artist

Ronda Broatch

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Point No Point Lighthouse in 2005
Point No Point Light (Washington) is located in Washington (state)
Point No Point Light (Washington)
Location Hansville, Washington
Coordinates 47.9123�N 122.5267�WCoordinates: 47.9123�N 122.5267�W
Year first constructed 1880
Year first lit 1879
Automated 1977
Foundation Masonry
Construction Brick and Stucco
Tower shape Square
Height 30 feet (9.1 m)
Original lens Fifth order Fresnel lens (1880�1990)
Fourth order (from 1990)
Characteristic 3 W Fl 10s[1]

For the light in the Chesapeake Bay see Point No Point Light (Maryland).

Point No Point Light is a lighthouse at Point No Point, on the west side of Puget Sound, near the point where Admiralty Inlet ends, in the small town of Hansville, Washington. Point No Point Light is the oldest lighthouse on Puget Sound. Local residents wanted the lighthouse located further north on Foulweather Bluff. When the Point No Point location was agreed upon, the owners of the land were reluctant to sell. Finally, the owners agreed to sell 40 acres (16 ha) for $1,000. Construction of the lighthouse began in April 1879. The first light used was a kerosene lamp. As 1879 drew to a close, the lens and a glass for the lantern had not arrived, so the first lighthouse keeper, J.S. Maggs, a Seattle dentist, hung a canvas over the south window openings to break the wind and keep the kerosene lamp from blowing out.

Upon completion of the light station in February 1880, the lantern room held a fifth-order Fresnel lens. The original masonry structure was 27-foot (8.2 m) high. The present 30-foot (9.1 m) brick and stucco tower is square and situated between the office and fog signal building. A fog signal, formerly used at New Dungeness Lighthouse, was installed in April 1880. There were no roads to the Point No Point Lighthouse for the first 40 years, so supplies had to be brought in by boat.

Lightning struck the lens in 1931, cracking a prism. The tower was also damaged which required patching and replacing the copper tubing.

In 1975, a 90-foot (27 m) radar tower was built on the west side of the lighthouse. The tower is used for the Vessel Traffic Service (VTS). In 1977, the Point No Point Lighthouse became fully automated, and only required one man to be assigned to the station. In 1990, the fog bell was replaced by a Daboll trumpet. The lens in the tower was changed to a fourth-order fresnel lens, which is still in place today.

In 1997, the last U.S. Coast Guard personnel left Point No Point and it stood empty until the Coast Guard leased the property for Kitsap County Parks and Recreation.

The Point No Point Light Station is currently the national headquarters of the U.S. Lighthouse Society, a nonprofit lighthouse preservation and educational organization (www.uslhs.org).