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2. Lighthouse keeper - Wikipedia

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   Marine occupation. A lighthouse keeper or lightkeeper is a person responsible for tending and caring for a lighthouse, particularly the light and lens in the days when oil lamps and clockwork mechanisms were used. Lighthouse keepers were sometimes referred to as " wickies " because of their job trimming the wicks. [1]

3. Trinidad Head Light - Wikipedia

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   Trinidad Head Light. /  41.051944°N 124.151444°W  / 41.051944; -124.151444. current: horn, 1 blast every 30s. Oc W 4s. Trinidad Head Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse on Trinidad Head on the outskirts of Trinidad, California. Built in 1871, it is 20 miles (32 km) north of Eureka, California.

4. Alcatraz Island Lighthouse - Wikipedia

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   Alcatraz Lighthouse, 2007. The first lighthouse was 50 feet (15 m) in height, and was based on a design that was typical of early "Cape Cod style" lighthouses, in which the light tower was an integral part of the keeper's house, and was centered atop the dwelling's roof. Construction of the foundation started in 1852, and the one-and-a-half ...

5. Battery Point Light - Wikipedia

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   Battery Point Light was one of the first lighthouses on the California coast. Rugged mountains and unbridged rivers meant coastal travel was essential for the economic survival of this region. In 1855, Congress appropriated $15,000 for the construction of a lighthouse on the tiny islet, which is connected to Battery Point by an isthmus which is ...

6. California Lighthouse - Wikipedia

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   The first lighthouse keeper was a young man from Curaçao named Jacob Jacobs. Jacobs had learned the profession of a lighthouse keeper at another lighthouse on the small island of Klein Curaçao. Federico Fingal from Aruba was the last person, in 1962, to watch over the California Lighthouse.

7. Point Arena Light - Wikipedia

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   July 16, 1991. Point Arena Light is a lighthouse in Mendocino County, California, United States, two miles (3 km) north of Point Arena, California. It is approximately 130 mi (210 km) north of San Francisco, in the Fort Point Group of lighthouses. The lighthouse features a small museum and gift shop. Guided tours of the light station as well as ...