Cape Mendocino Light

Infobox Lighthouse


caption = Cape Mendocino Light (USCG)
location = Shelter Cove, California
coordinates =
yearlit = 1868
automated = 1951
yeardeactivated = 1970s (Old)
foundation = Concrete
construction = Cast Iron
shape = white 16-sided Pyramidal
height =
lens = First order Fresnel lens (removed)
range =
characteristic = white flash every 15 s.
ARLHS = USA-129H
USCG = 6-0515

Cape Mendocino Lighthouse is a lighthouse in California,
United States, off Shelter Cove near Point Delgado, California. The 43 foot tower was one of the highest in the U.S. at 422 feet above sea level.

History

The light at Cape Mendocino was activated on December 1, 1868. The United States Coast Guard took control of the Cape Mendocino Lighthouse in 1939 when the United States Lighthouse Service merged with it, and the light was automated by the Coast Guard in 1951 and then abandoned in the 1970’s. The old 1868 lighthouse was relocated in 1998 to Shelter Cove, and the original first order Fresnel lens was transferred to a replica in Ferndale, California where it sits in a replica tower at the entrance of the Humboldt County Fairgrounds. In 1998 a group of volunteers dismantled the lighthouse and reassembled it in Mal Coombs Park in Shelter Cove, California.

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