The Heceta Head Lighthouse on the central Oregon coast. I took a 30 second night exposure looking south to capture the beam from the Lighthouse, Milkyway and the moon. The lighthouse stands 205 feet above the Pacific Ocean on a bluff carved out of the west side of 1,000-foot-high Heceta Head, twelve miles north of Florence. The light shining from the 56-foot-high tower flashes a white beam for eight seconds every minute. Visible for twenty-one miles, it remains Oregon’s most powerful lighthouse beam.
The U.S. Congress appropriated $80,000 in 1889 to build a first-class light station here, and it was mostly completed by August 1893. However, the first-order Fresnel lens, built by the Chance Brothers of Birmingham, England, did not arrive aboard the tender Manzanita until the fall 1893. Chance Brothers had packed the lens in a container of molasses so that it would survive the arduous journey. Though the lens and its clockwork mechanism arrived at the station in October, it could only be partially installed because the lighthouse lamps, shipped from Staten Island, New York, were still in transit. They finally arrived in February 1894, and the light was first lit in March 1894.
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