Willamette River Light

[2] The only visible remains of the station today are broken wooden pilings sticking out of the water near Kelley Point Park.

The light and fog signal were moved to a small platform at the end of a newly-constructed dike or breakwater built off the northern tip of Kelley Point, while the now-empty dwelling was eventually sold as office space to the Portland Mercantile Exchange.

During the 1940s, the Mercantile Exchange had it moved a short distance by crane from its original location to lower pilings on Kelley Point Beach, where it was used as a watchtower to notify their main office in downtown Portland of incoming vessels on the river.

The old station was abandoned for the final time after the Mercantile Exchange built new offices across the river on Sauvie Island in the early 1950s.

The only visible remains of the station today are broken wooden pilings sticking out of the water near Kelley Point Park.

Dec. 1919 Commission of Public Docks map showing the mouth of the Willamette. The red dot off Nigger Tom Island (now Kelley Point) was the approximate location of the lighthouse
1884 illustration of lighthouse fog bell with clockwork striking mechanism. The bell used on the Willamette River Light was probably similar to this.