1850 - Congress authorized the first sixteen lighthouses on the Pacific
Coast, including New Dungeness.
1855 - The United States Coast Survey report showed the proposed location
for a lighthouse on Dungeness Spit.
1857 - The light at New Dungeness was lighted for the first time on 14
December, showing a fixed white light from a third order Fresnel
lens. In addition to the keepers' dwelling with its integral 91 foot
tower, the facilities included one or more cisterns for the
collection of rainwater, a privy, boathouse and ways and a fogbell
1858 - On 11 February, Thomas Boyling and William Henry Blake reported for duty
as the first full-time keepers.
1862 - William Henry Blake married Mary Ann McDonnell.
1868 - 18 Tsimshian Indians of a party camped on the spit were massacred by a
group of S'Klallams. The burial by settlers of the bodies gave
Graveyard Spit its name.
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