Images of America- Lighthouses and Life-Saving on the Oregon Coast Eastern Europe Discovery Bay

Discovery Bay

Author: Dave Gerr

When used in combination with Gillis’s USCG Illustrations Workbooks

first-hand accounts of Fine Edge research trips on Baidarka

Corona Del Mar

Images of America- Lighthouses and Life-Saving on the Oregon Coast Eastern Europe Discovery BayThe Oregon Coast has been the site of shipwrecks even before Lewis and Clark's arrival in 1805. Even as the population grew, the federal government let the Oregon Coast go unguarded by lighthouses and lifesavers for decades. Economic and political pressures finally forced the government to build the first Oregon lighthouse in 1857 at the Umpqua River. The LifeSaving Service followed in 1878 with a station at the mouth of Coos Bay. Eventually, most of