Point Arena Lighthouse / Merita S. Whatley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whatley, Merita S., Author.

United States. National Ocean Service.

Series:

Images of America.

Images of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Point Arena (Calif.)--Buildings, structures, etc--Pictorial works.

Point Arena (Calif.).

Point Arena (Calif.)--History--Pictorial works.

Point Arena Lighthouse (Mendocino County, Calif.)--History--Pictorial works.

Point Arena Lighthouse (Mendocino County, Calif.).

Genre:

Bathymetric maps.

Maps.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages) : chiefly illustrations.

Scale 1:100,000 (W 124⁰00ʹ--W 123⁰00ʹ/N 39⁰00ʹ--N 38⁰30ʹ).

Cartographic Data:

Scale 1:100,000 (W 124⁰00ʹ--W 123⁰00ʹ/N 39⁰00ʹ--N 38⁰30ʹ).

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : Arcadia Pub., [2013]

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet from the NGDC NOAA web site. Address as of 2/27/08: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/bathymetry/maps/finals/LM-41/LM-41.pdf; current access via PURL.

Summary:

The low rumbles of the fog signal and flashing beam of light from the powerful lens have guided mariners away from the perilous waters surrounding Point Arena Lighthouse since 1870. After the great earthquake in 1906 and the rebuilding of the tower in 1908, Point Arena’s navigational aids continued to warn ships away from the peninsula off Northern California’s Pacific coastline. The original tower was replaced with a concrete cylindrical tower that rises 115 feet from the headland. This became the first lighthouse tower in the United States constructed with materials found to be superior to the stone and masonry lighthouse structures of the past. The new tower, crowned with a nearly 13,000-pound first-order Fresnel lens, sent a beam of light 20 miles out to sea and continued alerting ships of the dangers just offshore.

Contents:

Why a lighthouse at Point Arena?

First lighthouse at Point Arena, 1870

Life-Saving Station at Arena Cove, 1903

Earthquake!

New lighthouse and Fresnel lens, 1908

The middle years, 1920-1945

Lighthouse keepers and families

US Coast Guard at the lighthouse, 1939

Saving the light, renovation and preservation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 126).

Depths shown by isolines and soundings.

Title from title screen (viewed on Feb. 27, 2008).

Blackline print.

"Corrected meters."

"LM41."

OCLC:

885209863