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This wood-frame lighthouse operated from 01/21/1861 to approximately 1903, when it was superceded by a second masonry-walled facility.

The US Government spent $400 buying 10 acres from an early pioneer to this part of Whidbey Island, Dr. Kellogg, and began erection of a lighthouse here in 1858.

In 1880, the lighthouse switched from burning whale oil for the lamp to kerosene. In 1897, the lighthouse was moved north, when it stood in the way of gun emplacements for Fort Casey, a US Army base. After 1903, this wood-frame structure served as a Fort Casey medical building and,later, non-commissioned officer's quarters.

Demolished in 1927. Some of the timbers were salvaged and used in the Ernst House, Whidbey Island, WA. Wood from the tower went into the construction of a cupola on the Ernst House.

PCAD id: 12907