The Browns Point lighthouse bell was cast in 1855 by Bernard and Co, a bell foundry in Philadelphia, and was brought around the Horn in 1857 by the first lighthouse tender to come to the Pacific Coast, the Shurrick, to serve at Dungeness Light Station during the 1860s and later at Point No Point before being installed at Browns Point in 1903. In the early 1900s, one of the first light keeper's duties was ringing the bell during fog, and Browns Point was said to have more dense fog and longer sustained periods of fog than any other site in Puget Sound. The 1200-pound fog bell was operated by winding a crank that lifted a 1440 pound weight with a four-part gear, controlling the hammer that struck the bell; it required winding every 45 minutes and rang a single stroke every 20 seconds. In 1922, electricity reached the lighthouse site and the light and bell were electronically mechanized. In 1933, when the concrete lighthouse of today replaced the 30-year-old wood lighthouse, the bell was replaced by an air horn. The bell was then given to the College of Puget Sound, now the University of Puget Sound, where it marked the beginning and ending of classes, and after an electric buzzer system replaced it, the bell was stored away. In 1984, a member of the U.P.S. Board of Trustees requested that it be given to the Fox Island Alliance Church, where a bowling ball was attached inside for a clapper. On June 21, 2000, the Fox Island Alliance Church donated the bell to the Points Northeast Historical Society, which returned it to Browns Point Lighthouse Park. The bell now hangs in the old Pump House built in 1917, which, along with the lighthouse, cottage, boathouse, and oil house, is on the National Registry of Historic Places. On August 5, 2000, the Points Northeast Historical Society dedicated the bell to the memory of Murray Morgan, a nationally renowned Northwest historian, former U.P.S. professor, and friend, supporter, and guest speaker for several society functions; the bell returned to Browns Point one day before his death.