Bandon was the main port between San Francisco and Portland, and in aid of that enterprise, the Coquille River Lighthouse was erected in 1896 on a rocky edge of what is now Bullards Beach State Park.

I am sharing a picture of the Coquille River Lighthouse, which was built in 1895 on Rackleff Rock. The black appendage pointed toward the mouth of the river is the fog signal trumpet, which was ...

On the south coast is Cape Arago not far from Charleston (it’s the other lighthouse not open to the public); Coquille River near Bandon; and Cape Blanco near the town of Port Orford. There also ...

I wasn't expecting much from the park at the mouth of the Coquille River, besides what I already ... a rather flattish but extensive beach, an old lighthouse decommissioned in the 1930s and ...

I love this old picture of the Coquille River Lighthouse, which was built in 1895 and still stands today. But there was a move afoot in 1911 to have it relocated. Here is what an article in the ...