The Point Arena Lighthouse stands sentinel on the Northern California Coast, south of Mendocino

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The Point Arena Lighthouse stands sentinel on the Northern California Coast, south of Mendocino, as storm clouds move northward following a winter storm in January of 2008. The original Point Arena Lighthouse was damaged in the 1906 Earthquake the United States Lighthouse Service contracted with a San Francisco based company that built factory smokestacks to build a replacement. The new Point Arena Lighthouse began operation in 1908 and was the first lighthouse to be built with steel reinforcement rods encased in concrete to help it withstand an earthquake

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Size: 5201px × 3467px
Location: point arena, manchester, california, united states
Photo credit: © Rick Pisio\RWP Photography / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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