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Alcatraz's original lighthouse was lit in 1854, when California's gold fields were drawing fortune-seekers from around the world, and it was the first operating lighthouse on the West Coast. Today's lighthouse replaced the original one in 1909 and has guided vessels through the Golden Gate and around the Rock since then. A lighthouse keeper and two assistants lived on the island and tended the light until the U.S. Coast Guard automated it in 1963.
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