A park employee walks up the stairs of the lighthouse at Alcatraz Prison. San Francisco, California.
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Portrait of Laura Castellini, the sustainability coordinator for the GGNRA. Had a leading role in the planning of Alcatraz's rooftop solar power plant. Walking up the stairs in the lighthouse. Alcatraz Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse in California, United States, on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay, California[1]. It the southern end of the island near the entrance to the prison.[3] The first light house on the island was commissioned in 1854, and served the bay during its time as a Citadel and military prison. It was replaced by a taller 95 feet (29 m) above mean sea level ) concrete tower built in 1909 by Roberts, Bruce and Ray Jones, [1] to the south of the original one which was demolished after it was damaged due to earthquake in 1906. The automation of the lighthouse with a modern beacon took place in 1963, the year Alcatraz closed as the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. It is the oldest light station on the U.S. West Coast with a modern beacon and is part of the museum on the island.[1][3] Although when viewed from afar it easily looks the tallest structure on Alcatraz, it is actually shorter than the Alcatraz Water Tower, but as it lies on higher ground it looks much taller. Alcatraz Island is located in the San Francisco Bay, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) offshore from San Francisco, California, United States.[2] Often referred to as "The Rock, " the small island was developed with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, a military prison (1868), and a federal prison from 1933 until 1963.[3] Beginning in November 1969, the island was occupied for more than 19 months by a group of Aboriginal Peoples from San Francisco who were part of a wave of Native activism across the nation with public protests through the 1970s. In 1972 Alcatraz became a national recreation area and received designation as a National Historic Landmark in 1986.