“Cape Disappointment, marking the entrance to the Columbia River, was the earliest and most significant lighthouse in what is now Washington state. It was the most dangerous to build and clearly needed to be marked first.
Construction difficulties included the loss of the Oriole, a ship that wrecked on the bar in 1853 as it arrived with building materials and workers. Everything was lost except the rescued crew.”
[more] from Lighthouses: Not-so-romantic structures dot the Northwest coast by THE NEWS TRIBUNE 07/26/09
[more] on the Cape Disappointment from funbeach.com
