Real estate investors paid $50,000 in 1980 to buy the deteriorating Tillamook ... Lighthouse Service and, after 1939, the U.S. Coast Guard walked 77 steps on the spiral staircase from the first ...

plans proceeded. From the very beginning, Tillamook began claiming lives. The first was the man who designed the lighthouse, John Trewavas. On his first trip to the rock, he slipped while trying ...

The private Tillamook Rock ... members of the U.S. Lighthouse Service and, after 1939, the U.S. Coast Guard walked 77 steps on the spiral staircase from the first floor to the steel plate floor ...

TILLAMOOK, Ore. — The Tillamook Rock Lighthouse off the northwest coast of Oregon is for sale for $6.5 million. The island’s isolation, impossible boat landings and extreme weather as well as ...

(AP) — Despite the fame and numerous books written about her, much is still not known about “Terrible Tilly,” the lighthouse perched precariously on a rock offshore of Tillamook Head.

By Christine Hauser From a distance, the Tillamook Rock Lighthouse looks ... titanium door,” she said in an interview. The plan is for the lighthouse to appeal as an alternative to scattering ...

TILLAMOOK, Ore ... led by local real estate broker Mimi Morissete bought the lighthouse for $50,000 in 1979. The group had plans to build a cemetery called “Eternity at Sea” where people ...

FILE - Tillamook Head Lighthouse is shown on July 30, 2010, from Ecola State Park, near Cannon Beach, Ore. The lighthouse off the northwest coast of Oregon is for sale for $6.5 million.