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Lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford takes you on a tour up and down the Oregon coast to some of the greatest lighthouses in the states history, and whose absence once put sailors at the mercy of the unforgiving rocks.
Sources:
https://www.greatlighthouses.com/stories/the-history-of-the-lighthouse/#:~:text=The%20first%20lighthouse%20in%20recorded,a%20colossal%20450%20feet%20high.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_of_Alexandria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umpqua_River_Light
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/umpqua_river_lighthouse/#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20Office%20of%20Coast,the%20coast%20beyond%20visual%20range.
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/heceta-head-lighthouse/
https://www.pbs.org/legendarylighthouses/html/pnworgl.html#:~:text=Named%20for%20Portuguese%20explorer%20Don,in%20order%20to%20save%20money.
https://www.columbian.com/news/2017/nov/02/rue-the-resident-ghost-haunts-heceta-head-house/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillamook_Rock_Light
https://traveloregon.com/things-to-do/culture-history/historic-sites-oregon-trail/the-mystery-of-terrible-tilly/
By Oregon Voices Network-Marcus Axford4.1
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Lifelong Oregonian Marcus Axford takes you on a tour up and down the Oregon coast to some of the greatest lighthouses in the states history, and whose absence once put sailors at the mercy of the unforgiving rocks.
Sources:
https://www.greatlighthouses.com/stories/the-history-of-the-lighthouse/#:~:text=The%20first%20lighthouse%20in%20recorded,a%20colossal%20450%20feet%20high.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_of_Alexandria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umpqua_River_Light
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/umpqua_river_lighthouse/#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20Office%20of%20Coast,the%20coast%20beyond%20visual%20range.
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/heceta-head-lighthouse/
https://www.pbs.org/legendarylighthouses/html/pnworgl.html#:~:text=Named%20for%20Portuguese%20explorer%20Don,in%20order%20to%20save%20money.
https://www.columbian.com/news/2017/nov/02/rue-the-resident-ghost-haunts-heceta-head-house/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillamook_Rock_Light
https://traveloregon.com/things-to-do/culture-history/historic-sites-oregon-trail/the-mystery-of-terrible-tilly/

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