Point Retreat Light

Point Retreat Light
Point Retreat Light Station in 2001
Alaska
Location Admiralty Island
Lynn Canal
Alaska
United States
Coordinates 58°24′41″N 134°57′18″W / 58.41147°N 134.95502°W / 58.41147; -134.95502Coordinates: 58°24′41″N 134°57′18″W / 58.41147°N 134.95502°W / 58.41147; -134.95502
Year first constructed 1904 (first)
Year first lit 1923
Automated 1973
Foundation concrete
Construction reinforced concrete tower
Tower shape square tower with balcony and lantern on fog signal building
Markings / pattern art deco archirecture,
white tower, black lantern
Height 25 feet (7.6 m)
Focal height 63 feet (19 m)
Original lens First order bivalve Fresnel lens
Current lens 300 mm lens
Light source solar power
Range 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi)
Characteristic Fl W 6s.
Admiralty number G6528
ARLHS number ALK-010
USCG number 6-23955
Managing agent

United States Coast Guard[1] [2]

Point Retreat Light Station
Alaska Heritage Resources Survey
Nearest city Juneau, Alaska
Area 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built 1924
Architect U.S. Lighthouse Service
Architectural style Moderne
MPS Light Stations of the United States MPS
NRHP reference # 03000529[3]
AHRS # JUN-00084
Added to NRHP June 19, 2003
Heritage place listed on the National Register of Historic Places Edit this on Wikidata

Point Retreat Light is a lighthouse located on the Mansfield Peninsula at the northern tip of Admiralty Island in southeastern Alaska, United States. It provides aid in navigation through the Lynn Canal.

Naming

Point Retreat was named by Joseph Whidbey on July 19, 1794 because of his need to retreat from local Tlingit.[4]

History

Point Retreat was set aside as a 1,505-acre (609 ha) lighthouse reserve in 1901 by executive order of President William McKinley, but the point had to wait for its lighthouse due to inadequate funding. Point Retreat was first lit in 1904 and displayed a fixed white light. The first Point Retreat Lighthouse was a six-foot-tall hexagonal wooden tower, topped by a hexagonal lantern room. In 1917, Point Retreat was stripped of its personnel and downgraded to a minor light until 1924, when a new combination lighthouse and fog signal was built. The lantern was removed in the 1950s and a solar-powered 300 mm lens was installed on a post attached to the tower. In 1973 the light was again unmanned and downgraded to a minor light again.

In 2003 the light was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[3][5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Point Retreat The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 8 June 2016
  2. ↑ Alaska Historic Light Station Information & Photography United States Coast Guard. Retrieved 8 June 2016
  3. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  4. ↑ Wagner, Henry (1937). The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America to the Year 1800. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 385.
  5. ↑ David Benton (May 1, 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Point Retreat Light Station / Point Retreat Lighthouse AHRS Site No. JUN-00084". National Park Service. and accompanying photos
  • "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Alaska". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
  • Lighthouse Friends — Point Retreat Lighthouse
  • Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Alaska". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.



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