CLALLAM BAY — A travel article in the Oct. 7, 1928, Seattle Post-Intelligencer said Clallam Bay “furnishes an interesting spot for motorists” and its Slip Point Lighthouse the highlight of a trip in a LaSalle sedan on “excellent gravel roads” out of Port Angeles.
The lighthouse is now gone (and the roads are now paved), but a group in Clallam Bay is working toward saving the 1905 keeper’s house that is still standing and preserve a slice of local history it believes could be a centerpiece of a revitalized town.
Susan Heiny and her daughter Sarah Winter Grafstrom of the Clallam Bay Slip Point Lighthouse Keepers imagine the keeper’s house as many things: a museum, a visitor center, a tourist attraction and a reason for people to stop in Clallam Bay rather than driving past it to reach the