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20100401North Head Lighthouse, Erected 1898 copy.jpg
Plaque commemorates the construction of North Head Lighthouse in 1898. North Head, looming at the mouth of the Columbia River is but one of many hazards giving the Pacific Coast in Washington its nickname Graveyard of the Parcific. Olympic Peninsula
Douglas H. Orton
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