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West Point Lighthouse

West Point LighthouseDiscovery Park, Seattle

First lit: 1881

Automated: 1985

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Chief Boatswain’s Mate Christian Fritz served as the lighthouse keeper for many years in the early 1900s. One of the reasons he chose the West Point lighthouse posting was that the terrain from the keeper’s cottage to the lighthouse was relatively level. This allowed his blind wife to freely stroll the station’s grounds accompanied by her guide dog, a boxer named Cookie.

In 1985, it was the last lighthouse in Washington State to be automated despite its close proximity to Seattle.