12—April 1969 Fabulous 50 Miles Recreation
the lieh t-
celled when w inds reach 25-30
dav through F riday, and from
1 to 4 p.m . Saturday, Sunday
and holidays. Visiting Is can-
CAPE BLANCO ROAD leaves
Hlghway 101 about four m iles
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Cape Blanco Lighthouse Is Travelers Favorite
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S tates.
It is the oldest light
house stru c tu re in the state as
•»ell as the lo ftiest. It has beer
shining its beam nightly since,
December 20, 18 "0. At an ele
vation at 245 feet, its light is
sighted 22 m iles at sea. His
torically p r o m i n e n t . Cape
Blanco, O regon’s m ost w esterly
ram p art, was named by the
S p a n is h
ex p lo rer
Martin
A NEW
D* A guilar in 1603 a fter his
ship was separated from that
of his captain, Sebastian V is-
cainc. lyA gullar’s pilot named
it Blanco (white) because of
the chalky ap pearance at the
headland. L a te r the nam e was
changed to Cape O rford, attd the
early navigation charts carried
both the headland and the light
house as Cape O rford. Before
the turn of the century, it was
rev erted to Its original name.
At the tim e construction be
gan, huge groves of pine trees o rd e r beacon. H ie big Freenel
grew on the slopes of Blanco. lens that a rriv ed in 1870, had
to be landed by b oat, along with
B efore the p ro ject w as finished
n early all of the tre e s w ere cut Its lighting apparatus. Long be
down so as to d elete the threat fo re the advert of Cape Blanco
Light, an early pioneer named
of fire to the isolated station.
Louis Knapp, who ran the old
The difficult acc e ss to th e p la c e
Knapp Hotel at P ort O rford,
a lso made It n ecessary to make
the b rick s fo r the buildings had a soft spot in h is h eart for
from nearby clay deposits.
the tem pest tossed m ariner.
Each night for many y e a rs, he
Everything but the lan tern and
light apparatus w as a product kept a b rillia n t lan tern in a
of Oregon, Including Its light
larg e seaw ard window and wor.
house k eep ers. Cape Blanco has many friends among the m as
te r s of the coasting v essels
no fog horn.
Cape Blanco’s reputation is
m ntribution to safe
not a pleasant one, forbelow its
g re a t w alls many ships and lives
have been claim ed. H ie w aters
in this locale can becom e ex
trem ely rough and hazardous.
Both steam ers aDd sailing v es
se ls have been driven off their
co u rse when southerly sto rm s
have stru ck the a re a . It has
been labeled the port of no re
tu rn , fo r when a ship runs
afoul of its out-reaching tenta
cles the re su lts a re usually
tra g ic . The sidewheel steam er
Alaskan foundered n ear thereon
May 13, 1889, with a lo ss of 31
liv es. Thirty y ears la te r the
A ssociated Oil Company tanker
J . A. C hanslor w recked on Nov.
18, 1919, with the lo ss of 36
liv es. 30,000 b a rr e ls of oil in
oulk was lo st. To avoid rep e-
’tltion of such trag ed ies In re -
4Cent y e a rs, one of the most
powerful radio-beacons on the
Pacific C oast has been placed
at Cape Blanco. This beam
Capps Motor Co.
can be picked up to 250 miles
at sea. The lens fo r the light
DOWNTOWN BANDON
house cost $20,000 and the
o riginal light produced 45,765
PHONE
candle power which classed it
as a firs t-o rd e r beacon. The
3 4 7 -2 7 1 1
station now b o asts an Illum ina
tion of 1,000,000 candlepower
which In today’s tim e l s a f l r s t -
x
:
a
At Cape Blanco, a lofty and
prom inent headland, is situated
the m ost w esterly lighthouseoe
the mainland at the L rated
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HERE
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PORT ORFORD, OREGON
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DELICIOUS
CRANBERRY CANDY
DINING ROOM
Open from 6 a. m. to 1 0 :3 0 p. m.
33 J s m 05
ORFORDS
PORT ORFORD. OREGON
MAY BE PURCHASED
IN BANDON
Coquille Valley Dairy Co-op
Shindler's Rexall Drug
Ray's Pharmacy
McKay’s Market
Bandon Supermarket
Wright's Myrtlewood
Teals Tip Top Myrtlewood
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