The Eldred Rock Light­house is an octag­o­­nal-shaped struc­ture locat­ed on Eldred Rock, a small island in Lynn Canal in south­west­ern Alas­ka. The light­house was built between 1902 and 1905 in response to sev­er­al dis­as­trous ship­wrecks close by. The light­house was first lit in 1906 and was decom­mis­sioned in 1973. The old­est orig­i­nal light­house in Alas­ka and one of the most remote in North Amer­i­ca, the Eldred Rock Lighthouse’s most strik­ing fea­ture is its stun­ning moun­tain­ous back­drop. The Eldred Rock Light­house Preser­va­tion Asso­ci­a­tion of Haines, Alas­ka, endeav­ors to restore, main­tain, and pre­serve the his­toric Eldred Rock Light­house.