Coquille River Lighthouse under construction Sept. 6, 1896. Bandon Historical Society Museum Roger Straus, who first visited Bandon 25 years ago on his honeymoon, is also key to Schoeppner’s ...

Coquille River Lighthouse. First lit in 1895, Coquille River Lighthouse was built in Bullards Beach State Park to help mariners cross the dangerous bar located at the entrance to the Coquille River.

In 1857, crews erected a light at the mouth of the Umpqua River, and four years later it collapsed into the river. In 1896, the Coquille River Lighthouse was constructed on a jetty, but that didn ...

I love this old picture of the Coquille River Lighthouse. A similar picture in Dow Beckham's book about Bandon reports that the lighthouse "had a booming fog signal trumpet serviced by a redwood ...

Coquille River Lighthouse, first lighted in 1896 and 40 feet tall, sits just north of Bandon on Oregon's South Coast and makes a good stop as part of a visit to Bullards Beach State Park.

Put into commission in February 1896 on the north jetty of the Coquille River, at the edge of the Pacific Ocean, the now 120-year-old lighthouse guided mariners until 1939.

The Heceta Head lighthouse north of Florence and the Coquille River lighthouse at Bandon are closed to visitors, but you can still get to the base to take in the sights on the Oregon Coast.

Because we have been hearing so much about the foghorn in recent weeks, I decided to share the history of this aid to navigation, which dates back to 1896. I ...

Of the nine original lighthouses on the Oregon coast, seven are open to the public and most are still active working lighthouses. The lighthouses are, starting from the north, Tillamook Rock, a ...