Point Sur Light
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| Location: | Moro Rock, California |
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| Foundation: | Natural/emplaced |
| Construction: | Sandstone |
| Year first lit: | 1889 |
| Year first constructed: | 1889 |
| Automated: | 1972 |
| Tower shape: | square on Fog signal building with cylindrical top |
| Markings/Pattern: | White Tower on Sandstone Building |
| Height: | 48 ft, 270 ft above sea level |
| Original lens: | First order Fresnel lens |
| Current lens: | DCB-224 |
| Characteristic: | white flash every 15 s, Fog Signal: Diaphone, air, group of 2 blasts every 60 seconds, blast 2 seconds, silent 1 second, blast 3 seconds, silent 54 seconds. |
Point Sur Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Point Sur, California. The light is still an active aid to navigation and is open to the public.
--66.144.38.101 13:26, 16 March 2007 (UTC)==History== Point Sur has always been a navigational nightmare. After 11 years of petitioning the United States Lighthouse Service Board, money was allocated for the Point Sur Light in 1886. The lighthouse was completed in 1889 on Point Sur, which is a large, 361-foot-tall rock. Life on Point Sur was very lonely and isolated. Trips to Monterey were rare since the trail was long and treacherous. The keepers would receive goods and bulk supplies on a “lighthouse tender” boat roughly every four months. As road construction advanced, life on the Point Sur became less isolated. The light was automated by the United States Coast Guard in 1972. The lens was loaned to the Maritime Museum of Monterey where it is currently on exhibit. In 2004, the Point Sur Lighthouse was officially transferred from the Coast Guard to California State Parks.
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