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Fort Point Light & blue sky
Date: 2009/Sep/18 Fri
The treacherous waters of the Golden Gate have claimed dozens of ships and hundreds of lives. Beginning in 1852, the US Government funded the construction of a chain of 59 lighthouses along the California coast. The Fort Point light was one of 13 serving San Francisco Bay.
The first Fort Point light was built and destroyed in 1853. Army engineers blasted away the bluff on which it stood to allow for the construction of Fort Point. A second lighthouse, built near the water in 1855, was removed to permit seawall construction. Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Robert S. Williamson designed this third Fort Point light, finished in 1864.
In 1934, the US Lighthouse Service keepers extinguished the Fort Point light of the last time due to the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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