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Pigeon Point Lighthouse
Pescadero California Pigeon Point Lighthouse Print Art
Pescadero San Mateo County, California
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Perched on a cliff on the central California coast, the 115-foot Pigeon Point Lighthouse is one of the tallest lighthouses in America. Its five-wick lard oil lamp and first-order Fresnel lens, comprised of 1,008 prisms, was first lit at sunset on Nov. 15, 1872. The lens stands 16 feet tall, is 6 feet in diameter and weighs 2,000 pounds. The lens sat in a lantern room constructed at the Lighthouse Service’s general depot in New York before being shipped around the Horn. Although the original Fresnel lens is no longer in use, the lighthouse is still an active U.S. Coast Guard aid to navigation using a Vega Marine Rotating Beacon.
