Continuity site
Coquille River Light / Bullards Beach
Coquille River Light guided traffic into Bandon until fire, economic collapse, and changing need closed the station; the tower survives in a state park.
Heritage Journey
Coquille River: After the Town Burned
A harbor light closed when Bandon's world changed
Local archive memory + park afterlife for an Oregon Lost Light.
Story mode is the guided heritage-continuity mode inside the LUX Light Archive renderer.
Coquille River Light seen from the Bandon pier, Oregon. — Jim Getchell / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Signature moment
Coquille River: After the Town Burned
Conceptual illustration only — not to scale.
The journey
A harbor light closed when Bandon's world changed
Lit for Bandon's harborCoquille River Light seen from the Bandon pier, Oregon. — Jim Getchell / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source Probable reconstruction
Lit for Bandon's harbor
The light was commissioned to guide vessels past shifting sandbars into the Coquille River.
Fire and silenceCoquille River Light seen from the Bandon pier, Oregon. — Jim Getchell / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source Probable reconstruction
Fire and silence
A catastrophic fire around Bandon and declining need closed the light.
Bullards Beach afterlifeCoquille River Light seen from the Bandon pier, Oregon. — Jim Getchell / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source Probable reconstruction
Bullards Beach afterlife
Oregon Parks now maintain the site as heritage within Bullards Beach State Park.
Place
Reviewed place lead
Mapped point is a research lead only; confirm coordinates before public release.
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Coquille River Light / Bullards BeachStage 1
The light was commissioned to guide vessels past shifting sandbars into the Coquille River.
Place
Where the story anchors
Why it matters
Why this journey matters
Coquille River Light guided traffic into Bandon until fire, economic collapse, and changing need closed the station; the tower survives in a state park.
This pilot stays hidden from public discovery until evidence, rights, and AAA Story review are complete.
3 staged beats3 relation leadshidden research pilot
Heritage Journey
Coquille River: After the Town Burned
A harbor light closed when Bandon's world changed
Coquille River Light guided traffic into Bandon until fire, economic collapse, and changing need closed the station; the tower survives in a state park.
LUX Light Archive is the heritage renderer of the LUX143 research field, preserving lighthouse continuity through evidence, memory, movement, and sources.
Understand how this archive fits into the wider research field.
Inside this heritage renderer, Story and Research are two modes of the same evidence-grounded journey: Story gives a guided path, while Research shows the sources, relationships, uncertainty, and open questions behind it.
The journey
- 1896
Probable reconstruction
Lit for Bandon's harborThe light was commissioned to guide vessels past shifting sandbars into the Coquille River.
- 1939
Probable reconstruction
Fire and silenceA catastrophic fire around Bandon and declining need closed the light.
- park
Probable reconstruction
Bullards Beach afterlifeOregon Parks now maintain the site as heritage within Bullards Beach State Park.
In brief
Local archive memory + park afterlife for an Oregon Lost Light.
Places in this journey
- Continuity siteCoquille River Light / Bullards Beach
Why this journey matters
Coquille River Light guided traffic into Bandon until fire, economic collapse, and changing need closed the station; the tower survives in a state park.
This pilot stays hidden from public discovery until evidence, rights, and AAA Story review are complete.
3 staged beats3 relation leadshidden research pilot
Connected research view
Graph, time and place
Select an event, object, or place to trace it across all three views.
Interactive Movement Timeline
Stage 1Lit for Bandon's harbor
The light was commissioned to guide vessels past shifting sandbars into the Coquille River.
Evidence: 1 sourceConfidence: mediumPlace: Coquille River Light / Bullards BeachObjects: Coquille River Light fabricSources: Coquille River Light — Wikipedia, Coquille River Light — Wikipedia, Coquille River Light — WikipediaStage 2Fire and silence
A catastrophic fire around Bandon and declining need closed the light.
Evidence: 1 sourceConfidence: mediumPlace: Coquille River Light / Bullards BeachObjects: Coquille River Light fabricSources: Coquille River Light — Wikipedia, Coquille River Light — Wikipedia, Coquille River Light — WikipediaStage 3Bullards Beach afterlife
Oregon Parks now maintain the site as heritage within Bullards Beach State Park.
Evidence: 1 sourceConfidence: mediumPlace: Coquille River Light / Bullards BeachObjects: Coquille River Light fabricSources: Coquille River Light — Wikipedia, Coquille River Light — Wikipedia, Coquille River Light — Wikipedia
Relationship Graph
Graph links lighthouse identity, fabric, place, and dated transformation leads.
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Journey Map
Mapped point is a research lead only; confirm coordinates before public release.
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Coquille River Light / Bullards BeachStage 1
The light was commissioned to guide vessels past shifting sandbars into the Coquille River.
Evidence
Official and object-specific sources carry the strongest confidence; secondary sources are shown as corroborating context.
Source Baseline
- Coquille River Light — WikipediaencyclopediaAppears in Story: Lit for Bandon's harbor · Appears in Story: Fire and silence · Appears in Story: Bullards Beach afterlife
- Oregon Parks — Bullards Beach / Coquille River Light contextofficial_parkAppears in Story: Lit for Bandon's harbor · Appears in Story: Fire and silence · Appears in Story: Bullards Beach afterlife
- Local Mayachnik card: Coquille Riverlocal_archiveAppears in Story: Lit for Bandon's harbor · Appears in Story: Fire and silence · Appears in Story: Bullards Beach afterlife
- MarineRadar Inactive listing — Coquille Rivercommercial_leadAppears in Story: Lit for Bandon's harbor · Appears in Story: Fire and silence · Appears in Story: Bullards Beach afterlife
Identity Changes
- 1896: Lit for Bandon's harbor — The light was commissioned to guide vessels past shifting sandbars into the Coquille River.
- 1936: Fire and silence — A catastrophic fire around Bandon and declining need closed the light.
- park: Bullards Beach afterlife — Oregon Parks now maintain the site as heritage within Bullards Beach State Park.
Current Status
- Hidden research Heritage Journey pilot.
- Focus lighthouse/lightship draft or card: LUX-LH-000215.
- Not public AAA-ready; Wikipedia/MarineRadar leads only.
Open Questions
Research still in progress — these do not affect accepted relationships above.
- Reconcile closure chronology: local/Journey 1936 framing versus Wikipedia 1939 shutdown / south-jetty replacement wording.Appears in Story: Lit for Bandon's harbor · Appears in Story: Fire and silence · Appears in Story: Bullards Beach afterlife
Why LUX?
The local card already knew the light was inactive; the Journey must show why the harbor no longer needed it.
LUX connects town catastrophe, navigational obsolescence, and park custody without collapsing them into one status flag.
Rights & Attribution
Content License
Original editorial content on this page: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. See Rights & Reuse.
Media Rights
- Coquille River Light seen from the Bandon pier, Oregon. · Rights status: CC BY-SA · License: CC BY-SA 4.0 · Third-party material
Attribution
"Coquille River: After the Town Burned" · coquille-river-bandon-silence · © LUX143 · Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International · https://light.lux143.org/heritage-journeys/coquille-river-bandon-silence/ Coquille River Light seen from the Bandon pier, Oregon. — Jim Getchell / Wikimedia Commons · Rights status: CC BY-SA · CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · © Jim Getchell
Citation
LUX Light Archive, Heritage journey: "Coquille River: After the Town Burned", coquille-river-bandon-silence, https://light.lux143.org/heritage-journeys/coquille-river-bandon-silence/, accessed 2026-08-10, archive v0.24.362.