- Tree Point Light
Infobox Lighthouse
caption =
location =Revillagigedo Channel ,Alaska
coordinates = coord|54|48|10|N|130|56|02|W|region:US_type:landmark
yearlit = 1935
yearbuilt = 1903
automated = 1969
yeardeactivated =
foundation =Concrete
construction =Concrete
shape = White art deco Square tower attached to oil house
height = 58 ft (86 ft above sea level)
lens = Fourth orderFresnel lens
range = 9 nm
characteristic = Flashing white light every 6 seconds, Obscured from 158° to 318°.
admiralty = G6002
ARLHS = ALK-012
USCG = 6-21840The Tree Point Light is alighthouse located adjacent toRevillagigedo Channel in southeastern Alaska,USA . It is located near the southernmost point of mainland Alaska.History
The Lighthouse Board approved the construction of the Tree Point Lighthouse on April 24, 1903, and just over a year later the light was activated on April 30, 1904. The lighthouse was the first, and only lighthouse, to be built on mainland Alaska. In the early 1930s, the Bureau of Lighthouses authorized reconstruction of the station with reinforced concrete. Work began in 1933 and was completed in 1935. The 1935 lighthouse was equipped with a fourth-order Fresnel lens, which is now displayed at the Tongass Historical Museum in
Ketchikan, Alaska . In 1969 it was automated. The Fresnel lens was replaced with a lens mounted outside the lantern room. In the summer of 1977 the lens on the gallery was replaced with a modern, solar-powered VRB-25 Vega lens placed back inside the lantern room.External Links
* [http://www.uscg.mil/history/weblighthouses/LHAK.asp United States Coast Guard Lighthouses of Alaska]
* [http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=817 Lighthouse Friends — Tree Point Lighthouse]
* [http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/ak.htm Lighthouse Digest — Alaska]
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