when was tillamook rock lighthouse decommissioned
The Tillamook Rock Lighthouse was built in the 1880s. Dangerous and expensive to operate, it was decommissioned in 1957. Credit Stuart Isett for The New York Times . CANNON BEACH, Ore. â Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, a mile off the Oregon coast and dark for half a century, would be just another postcard from the past if not for all the dead people inside.