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This is Fort Point Light. 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 1856, was removed to permit seawall construction. Brevet Lieutenant Robert S. Williamson designed this third Fort Point light, finished in 1864. In 1934, the U.S. Lighthouse Service keepers extinguished the Fort Point light for the last time due to the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. |