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BROWNS POINT, Wash. — In the late 1800s, Tacoma’s waterfront is booming thanks to timber and the city’s growing population.
“When Tacoma began to become more and more of a shipping center they needed a lighthouse to direct ships into the port,” said Jim Harnish with Points Northeast Historical Society. “They built a permanent lighthouse in 1903, it was a wood lighthouse with a kerosene lantern. The first lighthouse keeper came in 1903, Oscar Brown and his wife, Annie. They were here by themselves with no roads, no electricity, no water until 1921. So, it
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