Tillamook Rock Lighthouse was built on a bare stone pillar hammered constantly by the Pacific Ocean. Construction crews had to leap from boats onto the rock and be winched up through crashing waves.

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 the ...

Real estate investors paid $50,000 in 1980 to buy the deteriorating Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, Oregon’s only offshore light station. The owners converted the forlorn structure, which has been ...

The four men and one woman, age 29-58, had camped three nights on the exposed basalt outpost and spent their days cleaning up the stone fortress to ready it for sale. They also collected artifacts to ...

They were once beacons of light for ships in the night — a highway of flashing signals that allowed commerce to flourish along Oregon's rugged coastline in the 19th Century. Today, the role of ...

CANNON BEACH, Ore. (AP) — The Tillamook Rock Lighthouse off the northwest coast of Oregon is for sale for $6.5 million. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports investors had paid $50,000 in 1980 to buy the ...

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. The island's ...