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Old Point Loma Lighthouse, Cabrillo
National Monument, California |
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| Moon Rise Over Point Montara
Lighthouse, CaliforniaTucked away off
the road in Pacific Grove, this
lighthouse was built in 1872 and rebuilt
in 1928. |
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| Long Beach Lighthouse at Sunset |
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| Point Vicente Light, Palos Verdes,
California |
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| Point Fermin Lighthouse San Pedro,
CA |
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| Point Reyes is a harsh place. Winds
howl past the point and it's foggy 2,700
hours a year. Add the steep climb
required to get back up the hill from
the lighthouse, and keeper E. G.
Chamberlain said it best "Better dwell
in the midst of alarms than reign in
this horrible place".
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| I think Pigeon Point is the most
beautiful lighthouse on the coast.
Located 50 miles south of San Francisco
near the tiny town of Pescadero, the
light has been warning mariners since
1872. The tower is one of the tallest on
the West Coast.
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| The Point Sur light must have been
one of the loneliest places in
California when it was built in 1899.
Situated on a steep sandstone island
overlooking the Pacific, one of its most
famous incidents didn't involve a ship
at all. In 1935 the military airship the
USS Macon, longer than 3 Boeing 747s
parked end-to-end, crashed just off the
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| The Point Vicente light is one of
the newest, built in 1926 on Los
Angeles' Palos Verdes peninsula. It may
look familiar, since it has been
featured in dozens of movies and
television series episodes.
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| Built in 1855 on what seemed to be
an ideal site, this lighthouse was so
high that it often was obscured by low
cloud banks, and it was replaced in 1891 |
