Keywords: Cape Disappointment Light House, Washington - NARA - 299672.jpg Scope and content Beginning with the Civil War the U S Army recognized a need to provide for coastal defenses in the Pacific NW along the Columbia River and in the Puget Sound A number of forts many no longer in service were built for this purpose General notes 299672 Local identifier War Department Fourth Army and Western Defense Command ~ Coast Defenses of the Columbia 03/17/1941 - 1946 NARA's Pacific Alaska Region Seattle NRIAS 6125 Sand Point Way NE Seattle WA 98115-7999 Record group Record Group 392 Records of U S Army Coast Artillery Districts and Defenses 1901 - 1950 Record group ARC 690 General History of the Harbor Defenses of the Columbia compiled ca 1945 - ca 1945 documenting the period ca 1864 - ca 1945 Series ARC 299650 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NRIS-392-CODEF99B-22 Other versions <gallery> File Cape_Disappointment_Light_House _Washington_-_NARA_-_299672 tif tif File Cape_Disappointment_Light_House _Washington_-_NARA_-_299672 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Cape Disappointment Lighthouse Washington state in the 1940s |