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Point Pinos Lighthouse

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27: 431:, to be installed instead. The first light source was a whale oil lantern set inside the lens, whose tank the keeper had to climb the tower to fill several times a night. Whale oil was very expensive and was soon replaced by liquified lard oil which gave way to kerosene in 1880. At the turn of the century, an incandescent vapor lamp was used, followed by electric lights in 1919. From 1912 to 1940 a falling weight mechanism rotated a metal shutter around the light causing the beam to be cut off to seaward for 10 out of every 30 seconds. Thereafter a timed flasher provided the "on/off" characteristic. 38: 1534: 232: 189: 28: 547: 503: 531: 582: 1174: 568: 515: 1162: 1541: 460:. The government purchased 25 acres (10 ha) of the Rancho Punta de los Pinos for this purpose, with an additional 67 acres (27 ha) being purchased later on. Construction began in 1853, but difficulties with the delivery of the lenses and prisms from France delayed the opening of the lighthouse until 1855. 394:
was installed outside the tower, and the main light was turned on permanently. The present signal has a simple 4-second cycle signature of on/3-seconds, and off/1-second. As a further navigational aid, a Class D radio beacon operated continuously which had a range of up to 20 miles (30 km). A
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The present light source, located 89 feet (27 m) above sea level, is a 1 kilowatt bulb, which produces a 50,000 candela beam visible under favorable conditions up to 15 nautical miles; 27 kilometres (17 mi) distant. Formerly, the light had a rigid schedule of being lit one hour prior to
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The first lightkeeper was Charles Layton, appointed to the post at $ 1,000 per year. He was killed in 1855 while serving as a member of the sheriff's posse chasing the notorious outlaw,
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In 1874 Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove, named for the Point Pinos Lighthouse, was laid out to ferry supplies and construction materials from the port at Monterey to the lighthouse.
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Lighthouse preceded Point Pinos by eight months, but was replaced in 1909 by the expanding military prison. The Point Pinos Lighthouse is still an active
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ordered the building of seven beacons along the California coast, one of which was to be located at Point Pinos, the dangerous southern entrance to the
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personnel when lack of visibility warranted its use. With the advent of global positioning satellite navigation in 1993, the radio beacon and
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in 1853. A larger, second-order light had been planned, but delay in shipment caused the present light, originally destined for the
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sunset, and extinguished one hour after sunrise. With automation completed in 1975, a small battery-operated back-up
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aid to navigation. On-site museum exhibits and other lighthouse related functions are operated by the city of
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foghorn was also located below the lighthouse closer to shore which could be turned on manually by the
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made to José María Armenta in 1833, and regranted to José Abrego in 1844. In 1850, after the
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wrote of visiting lightkeeper Allen Luce in 1879 after a long walk through the woods from
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cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern rising at the centre of keeper's house
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Point Pinos Lighthouse is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Transportation buildings and structures in Monterey County, California
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Lighthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in California
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The point was a part of the 2,667-acre (1,079 ha)
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Another view of the lighthouse as it appeared in 2009.
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Crompton, Samuel Willard; Rhein, Michael J. (2002).
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19th century lighthouse in Pacific Grove, California
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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Monterey Bay
Pacific Grove, California
United States
Coordinates
36°38′00″N 121°56′02″W / 36.633389°N 121.933783°W / 36.633389; -121.933783
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Pacific Grove, California
Cape Cod style
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Pacific
California
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West Coast of the United States
Alcatraz Island
United States Coast Guard
Pacific Grove
Monterey County
California
Pacific Grove Municipal Golf Links
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