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Yerba Buena Light Station
Premises page 1 of 2
Military Reservation
05/27/1872
About 30 acres
About 30 acres
Light layer of sand & loam
70'
whole station
We use the buoy wharf for landing
Road is narrow & very steep. Very slippery in damp or wet weather, about 400' N of tower.
by boat
2 miles steamboat landing
2 miles
2 miles
Navy tug Vigilant from San Francisco.
by boat
tower
one
1875
1906
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