Marine surveys of Washington’s inland waterways, commissioned by the Lighthouse Board in the 1850s, recommended that the entrance to Admiralty Inlet be marked with two lights: on Whidbey Island to the east, and on Point Wilson (on Quimper Peninsula near Port Townsend) to the west. (1821-1891), who had claimed a homestead on this site in 1853 under the Oregon Land Donation Act of 1850. John Coe Kellogg (1820-1902), and his wife Caroline T. A local name for the headland was Kellogg Point for Dr.
Exploring Expedition, named it Red Bluff from the reddish color of the cliffs. In 1841, Lieutenant Charles Wilkes (1798-1877), commander of the U. Captain George Vancouver (1758-1798) named Admiralty Inlet on June 2, 1792, in honor of the British Navy’s Board of Admiralty. It acquired the name from Admiralty Inlet, the waterway between the Olympic Peninsula and Whidbey Island, connecting the Strait of Juan de Fuca with Puget Sound. Coast Guard’s bicentennial.Īdmiralty Head is a 90-foot high promontory that projects into Admiralty Inlet on the west coast of Whidbey Island in Island County four miles south of Coupeville. Postal Service selected it for a collection of five commemorative lighthouse stamps honoring the U.S.
Although decommissioned in 1922, the Admiralty Head Lighthouse received national recognition in 1990 when the U. It replaced the Red Bluff Lighthouse, a wooden Cape Cod style structure built in 1861. The beacon, high on a bluff, 127 feet above sea level, was an important navigational aid, especially for sailing ships entering Admiralty Inlet from the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The Admiralty Head Lighthouse, built in 1903 by the Army Corps of Engineers, is located in Fort Casey State Park near Coupeville on Whidbey Island.
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