Social Media

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Local Links

  Discover Point Pinos Heritage Map

  Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History

    - Other Local Attractions make a day of it!

Teacher Resource Page

  most of this resource is intended for 4th grade and above:

  besides the rest of the information on our site there are:
coloring pages, youtube/social media, CA standards, Monterey 1852, Natural History, FREE Out of Copyright, PG Library, Navigation, Hazards of early materials, Diseases of the early years

AND . . . The 1855 Survival Game!

Slide Shows

Artist Views       B-day 165 (2020)       Docents at work       Best of Facebook       Front Step Repair       Gift Shop Browsing       Gypsy Anchor Repair       Inside the lighthouse       Our Keepers 1855 - 1964   as a PDF       Outside the LH       Early Postcards       Restoration of PPLH       Select Google Reviews       Some Visitors       Weekly Weather       PPLH Wildlife       Wrecks near us  as a 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

   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
   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

More Documents (PDFs)

  Memories of living at PPLH by Nancy Hane
  George Petersen retires 1957 Herald article
  Charlotte Layton/Harris her time as keeper
  Dr. Fish Emily Fish's husband before her arrival
  Dr. Melanchthon Fish Emily Fish's husband's biography
  Emily Fish article in SF Examiner 1900
  Female Keepers a master's thesis
  Scott Fisher keeper 1969-1970
  Thomas Henderson keeper 1938-1955
  Keeper Instructions 1881
  Keeper Instructions 1902
  John Jeffrey keeper 1914-1919
  Jiggs lighthouse cat
  Vera Larson lighthouse docent
  Lighthouse Quarterley Fall 1996
  Allen Luce keeper 1871-1893
  Charles Layton keeper 1855, deputy, stats
  Joaquin de la Torre deputy, killed along with Layton
  Peter Nelson keeper 1931-1938
  Bob Stone assistant keeper 1953
  Andrew Wasson keeper 1863-1870
  Andrew Wasson sheriff 1872-1873
  Wreck on shore Oct 1961 wreck of catamaran
  Keeper Plaque and assistant keepers
  Schematic what's in each room
  Map of Bay Area NOAA map SF - Big Sur
  Map of Monterey Bay NOAA map Closeup
  Tower Restoration 9/21/21
  Recent Coast Guard visitor as recorded by Docent Ann
  The Fresnel Lens 10/28/2022
  Juliet Fish Nichols: Angel Island 11/2022
  Site selection by Paul Knostman 11/2011
  Lew Kew post Emily Fish
  PPLH Time line 6/13/2024
  150th b-day video not part of current video collection

Project Pages - how to guides

  Slide shows
  Video slide shows
  Period costumes
  Extras
  Wikipedia

Pacific Grove Library Resources

  Cat Search for Lighthouse
  McCaffery's book
  Video about PPLH by McCaffery
  Stevenson family of lighthouse builders RLS did help engineer and build one lighthouse with his family in 1872 Dhu Heartach