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2. Los Angeles Harbor Light - Wikipedia

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   80000810. Added to NRHP. October 14, 1980 [4] Los Angeles Harbor Light, also known as Angels Gate Light, is a lighthouse in California, United States, at San Pedro Breakwater in Los Angeles Harbor, California. The lighthouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is listed as Los Angeles Light in the USCG Lights list.

3. 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 ...

4. List of lighthouses in California - Wikipedia

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   List of lighthouses in California. Coordinates: 38.067856°N 122.028166°W. There are several lighthouses in the U.S. state of California, including a few listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Lighthouse Friends (California) Name. Image. Location. Coordinates. Year first lit.

5. Point Vicente Lighthouse - Wikipedia

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   Point Vicente Lighthouse. Fl (2) W 20s. Point Vicente Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, United States, north of Los Angeles Harbor. It is 67 feet (20 m) tall and stands on a cliff with a height of 130 feet (40 m). [ 4 ] It is between Point Loma Lighthouse to the south and Point Conception Lighthouse to the north.

6. Lighthouse keeper - Wikipedia

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   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]

7. Maria Andreu - Wikipedia

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   Maria Mestre de los Dolores Andreu (April 25, 1801 – after 1860) was an American known as the second US Coastguard female employee. A lighthouse keeper, she was the first Hispanic-American woman to command a federal shore installation. [1] Marilyn Dykman said of her "Maria Andreu's leadership and perseverance as keeper of the lighthouse ...