Battery Point Lighthouse and Museum

Battery Point Light is a beacon in Crescent City, California, United States. It is enlisted as a California Historical Landmark, and is recorded on the National Register of Historic Places as "Sickle City LighthouseBattery Point Light was one of the main beacons on the California drift. Rough mountains and unbridged waterways implied beach front travel was basic for the financial survival of this locale. In 1855, Congress appropriated $15,000 for the development of a beacon on the small islet, which is associated with Battery Point by an isthmus which is unmistakable, and can be navigated by walking, at low tide. In spite of the fact that excluded in the 1852 decrease by the United States Lighthouse Service for the initial eight west drift beacons, the Battery Point Lighthouse was really lit ten days before the Humboldt Harbor Lighthouse, the remainder of the first eight to wind up operational. The fourth-arrange Fresnel focal point was lit in 1856. The beacon was computerized in 1953, and a cutting edge 14.8-inch 375 mm focal point supplanted the fourth-arrange Fresnel focal point. Theophilis Magruder was the station's first attendant; Wayne Piland was its last before robotization in 1953. The 1964 Alaska seismic tremor, the most grounded quake at any point recorded in the northern half of the globe,