North Head Lighthouse Ceramic Ornament

The North Head Lighthouse resides at the Southwest corner of Washington State. The North Head Lighthouse was built in response to a marked increase in the number of shipwrecks along the Long Beach Peninsula as mariners coming from the north could not see the Cape Disappointment lighthouse. The 65-foot North Head Lighthouse was designed by German-born engineer C.W. Leick and sits on solid basalt more than 190 feet above sea level. It first used the hand-me-down first order Fresnel lens from Cape D, switching to search light and finally beacon light at the same time changes were made to her sister lighthouse. A fresh coat of paint just in time for her century birthday restored the North Head’s masonry to marine white with a red cap.