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Daily Alta California, January 4, 1856

NOTICE TO MARINERS
LIGHTHOUSE
AT
POINT CONCEPTION
WESTERN ENTRANCE, SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL,
CALIFORNIA.
A Revolving White Light, 1st order of Fresnel,
Shewing a flash every half minute
throughout the entire horizon.
The house is situated near the extremity, and on the highest part of Point Conception, elevated about 220 feet above the sea.  It consists of a brick dwelling plastered, of one story and a half, with a low tower also of brick and plastered, rising from the centre.  The light is elevated about 250 feet above mean sea level, and will be visible in a favorable state of the atmosphere, from a height of 15 feet above the water, at a distance of 26 statute or 22-1/2 nautical miles. 

The latitude and longitude of the Light, as given by the Coast Survey, are:

Lat. 34 degrees 26' 47" N.
Long. 120 degrees 25' 33" W.

The following magnetic bearings and distances in statute miles, are taken approximately from the chart of the coast of the same survey:

West end, San Miguel Island,
S. 12 degrees East 24 miles. 
West end, Santa Cruz Island, S. ? degrees E. 39 miles.
The light will be exhibited for the first time on the night of the lst of February, 1856, and thereafter every night from sunset to sunrise, until further notice.
By order of the Light House Board

HARTMAN BACHE,
Maj. Topog'l Engr., Br. Maj.

Office, 12th Light House District, 
San Francisco, CA., Dec 27, 1855.

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Page: http://www.maritimeheritage.org/news/notice
Date Entered: August 1999
Source: Geographicus, Newspaper Archives, Daily Alta California



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