Mukilteo Lighthouse
Mukilteo
First lit: 1907
Automated: 1979
47.94871 -122.30453
Mukilteo, in the local Native American language, means “good place for camping.” In 1792 Captain George Vancouver came ashore there and named it Rose Point for all the wild roses that bloomed along the grassy shore.
Later renamed Point Elliot, it became the site of the signing of the Treaty of Point Elliot. This treaty of 1855 ended the Indian wars, established the Tulalip Indian Reservation, and truly opened the area up for significant white settlement.
The picturesque lighthouse has hosted hundreds and hundreds of weddings. Not a single one of the first hundred was rained on.
