Upcoming Chapter Meetings and Other Important Dates

CHAPTER MEETING DATES AND LOCATIONS:

March 17, 2007
Port Orford, OR / Cape Blanco Lighthouse

May 19, 2007
Long Beach, WA / Cape Disappointment and North Head Lighthouses

July 21, 2007
Crescent City, CA / Battery Point Lighthouse

October 6, 2007
Seaside, OR / Tillamook Rock Lighthouse

March, 2008
Astoria, OR/North Head, Cape Disappointment, Columbia River Maritime Museum & Lightship Columbia

May, 2008
Newport, OR/Yaquina Head & Yaquina Bay

July, 2008
Reedsport, OR/Umpqua

October, 2008
St. Helens, OR/Warrior Rock (Sauvie Island)


For additional information on these meeting dates, please contact the Chapter at the above e-mail address.

OTHER IMPORTANT DATES:

Annually in August – Oregon Lighthouse Month (Special Events to be held during this month)

August 7, 1789: The service, eventually to be known as the US Lighthouse Service, was established under the control of the Treasury Department

August 4, 1790: The Revenue Cutter Service was created.

August 14, 1848: Congress appropriates funds to pay for life-saving equipment to be used by volunteer organizations.

October 9, 1852: The Lighthouse Board, which administered the nation's lighthouse system until July 1, 1910, was organized.

June 18, 1878: The U.S. Life-Saving Service is established as a separate agency under the control of the Treasury Department.

January 28, 1915: President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the "Act to Create the Coast Guard," an act passed by Congress on January 20, 1915 that combined the Life-Saving Service and Revenue Cutter Service to form the Coast Guard.

July 1, 1939: The Lighthouse Service became part of the Coast Guard.

For more about the Chronology of Aids to Navigation and the U.S. Lighthouse Service (1716-1939), please visit the USLHS Chronology provided by the U.S. Coast Guard.