Point Pinos Lighthouse

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City of Pacific Grove includes Lighthouse/Golf Course

  Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History
  Heritage Society of Pacific Grove
  Discover Point Pinos Heritage Map

List of Local Attractions make a day of it PDF

Teacher Resource Page

most of this is intended for 4th grade and above:
besides pages on the rest of this site there are: coloring pages, youtube/social media, CA standards, Monterey 1852, Natural History, Out of Copyright, PG Library, Navigation, Hazards of early materials, Diseases of the early years

Slide Shows

   Artist View  over the years
   B-day 165  period costume (2020)
   Docents  docents at work
   Facebook  best image from each month
   Front Steps  repair
   Gift Shop  browsing welcome
   Gypsy Anchor  exhibit evolution/repair
   Inside  the lighthouse
   Keepers  1855 - 1964, PDF
   Outside  the lighthouse
   Postcards  postcards early to recent
   Restoration  the restoration effort
   Reviews  recent ones on Google
   Visitors  some of the vistors
   Weather  weekly images
   Wildlife  seen around the lighthouse
   Wrecks  never because the light was out PDF

Inside Signs and Such - PDFs

   3rd Order Fresnel Lens  and maker
   Eclipser  1st sign
   Eclipser  2nd sign
   Emily Fish quote  from her logs
   Emily Fish quote  from her logs
   Emily Fish quote  from her logs
   Foghorn  sign beneath the foghorn
   Fresnel demo  w/ the 4 watt bulb
   Tower  sign below the lantern room
   Allen Luce quote  from his logs
   Allen Luce quote  from his logs
   Allen Luce quote  from his logs
   Close up  of geo map
   Mixed  misc signs

WW II - PDFs

   Italian Americans  an injustice done
   Japanese Americans  an injustice done
   Japanese Subs  seen along the west coast
   Watch Tower  at the lighthouse
   WWII at LH  artillery and beach patrol
   Beach Patrol  Elks Magazine article

More about Japanese Sub activity

WWII at PPLH research on where everything was

Navy/NOAA

Sam Colburn painting showing PPLH and NOAA

   POINT PINOS: a conundrum on the Monterey Peninsula
   A BRIEF HISTORY of the NOAA Pacific Grove, CA facility
   Historic California Posts
   Mural on NOAA building by Ray Troll
   Wikipedia NOAA

Sam Colburn painting of PPLH & NOAA

West Coast Lighthouses - PDFs

  PPLH: Oc 4s 89ft 17M
   Google Map: Latitude 36° 38' 0.22" N
   Longitude 121° 56' 1.67" W

  West Coast Map - map with all the lighthouses on the west coast
  California - links to more information
  Oregon - links to more information
  Washington - links to more information

Early Keeper Logs - PDFs

  Allen Luce 1872-1893 - a time of change
  Emily Fish 1893-1899 - second appointed woman keeper
  Emily Fish 1900-1906 - includes San Francisco earthquake
  Emily Fish 1907-1909 - the last log we have

More Information - PDFs

  Inside Lighthouse - floor plan
  Plants at Lighthouse - natives and garden plants
  History Timeline - lighthouse, local and national events
  Oil Lamp Drawing - first lights used oil, this is how it worked
  Keeper Tech Timeline - tech at lighthouse and local history
  Del Monte Train - San Francisco to Asilomar
  Ship Wrecks - Year and location