• Alcatraz Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse—the first one built on the U.S. West Coast—located on Alcatraz Island in California's San Francisco Bay.
  • Alcatraz Lighthouse is located atop the southern end of the island near the entrance to the prison. The interior of the tower is not typically open to visitors.
  • The first lighthouse on the West coast and a must see when on Alcatraz. To be honest you can't really miss it when on the island.
  • The Alcatraz Island Lighthouse is decaying and is in critical need of repair. If we don't preserve it now, we will lose this priceless historical landmark and...
  • The Alcatraz lighthouse had a third-order Fresnel lens from France. A mechanized fog bell was added in 1856, on the southeast end of the island.
  • Alcatraz Island profile showing lighthouse towering over the Warden\'s House. The Alcatraz Lighthouse towering over the Warden's House.
  • Alcatraz Island Lighthouse Historic Alcatraz Lighthouse. ... Until the invention of electricity, the lighthouse was manually lit.
  • The Alcatraz Island Lighthouse was constructed in 1909, to replace the original lighthouse damaged by the 1906 earthquake.
  • Alcatraz Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse – the first one built on the U.S. West Coast – located on Alcatraz Island in California's San Francisco Bay.
  • The Alcatraz Island Lighthouse was first lit in 1854, and like most lighthouses of its time, it used oil lamps as its primary source of light.