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Old Point Loma postcard face - click to enlarge

Old Point Loma postcard obverse - click to enlarge

Old Point Loma postcard face - click to enlarge

Old Point Loma postcard obverse - click to enlarge

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Old Point Loma

State: CA
Year established: 1855
Latitude: 32 deg 40 min 18 sec N
Longitude: 117 deg 14 min 24 sec W
Height above sea level: 462 feet

Original construction:
40-ft sandstone cylindrical tower atop white sandstone dwelling

Rebuilds:
1891: light extinguished and moved to New Point Loma lighthouse

Status:
part of Cabrillo National Monument

More information:

http://www.nps.gov/cabr/lighthouse.html#SOPLL
http://www.beachcalifornia.com/light.html
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHCA.html
Holland Jr., F. Ross, America's Lighthouses: Their Illustrated History Since 1716, (Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1972), pp. 165

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