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Managing Organization:
Point Fermin Park
Website: http://www.sanpedrochamber.com/champint/ptfmpk.htm
Contact Address Information:
S. Gaffey St. at W. Paseo Del Mar
San Pedro
California,
Notes:
Point Fermin Light serves as the residence of the superintendent of Point Fermin Park, a 37-acre public park. A light in a shack, then a light in a pole, replaced the lighthouse as an aid to navigation. The lantern was removed but a replica lantern was created. The lighthouse was restored by the Sons and Daughters of the Golden West. A new chapter of the U.S. Lighthouse Society has now formed. The Point Fermin Chapter hopes to eventually open the lighthouse to the public on a regular basis.
Tower Height: 30
Height of Focal Plane: 100
Description of Tower: Square Italianate tower on wood frame dwelling.
This light is not operational
Other Buildings?
1874 Italianate wood frame keeper's house, three cisterns, concrete oil house, barn.
Date Established: 1874
Date Present Tower Built: 1874
Date Deactivated: 1942
Optics: 1874: Fourth order Fresnel lens (removed).
Current Use: Residence of the superintendent of Point Fermin Park.
Open To Public? Grounds only.
Directions:
From the north, take CA 110 South; it becomes I-110 S. Turn left onto N. Gaffney Street and follow to its end at Point Fermin Park.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Keepers: Mary L. Smith (1874-?); George Shaw (c. 1880s).
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