CSHP - Pigeon Point Lighthouse

We attended a  State Park Foundation event here which included a talk by Joanne Semones, author of a number of books on lighthouses and California coast history.

Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park

 "After a struggle to secure property at the point, Congress appropriated a sum of $90,000 in March 1871 for a first-class lighthouse and fog signal on Pigeon Point. The fog signal and Victorian fourplex were completed first, and the twelve-inch steam whistle, with four-second blasts separated alternately by seven and forty-five seconds, was fired up for the first time on September 10, 1871. Torrential rains and difficulty in assembling the spiral staircase, which had been fabricated by Nutting & Son in San Francisco, contributed to delays in completing the tower. After the lantern room was in place atop the tower, the delicate lens was assembled inside, and the light was exhibited for the first time on November 15, 1872, over fourteen months after the fog signal was completed. At sunset that evening, Keeper J. W. Patterson started the brass clockwork ticking, ignited the lard oil in the lamp, and soon the lighthouse according to Patterson was “exchanging winks and blinks with its neighbor of the Farallones.”

https://www.us-lighthouses.com/pigeon-point-lighthouse\

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_Point_Lighthouse

https://www.coastsidestateparks.org/PPLH-restoration