[DOC] [TLE] Alcatraz Island - Wikipedia [PAR] Alcatraz Island is located in the San Francisco Bay, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) offshore 
from San Francisco, California, United States. The small island was developed 
with facilities for a lighthouse, a military .... Alcatraz, built as a "heavily fortified 
military site on the West Coast", formed a "triangle of defense" along with Fort 
Point... [DOC] [TLE] Alcatraz Island Lighthouse, California at Lighthousefriends.com [PAR] Alcatraz Island Lighthouse, California Lighthouses, Photographs, pictures, history 
... Island Lighthouse, which would be the first lighthouse activated on the West 
Coast. The plans for most of the eight lighthouses called for a one-and-a-half-
story .... Schneider arrived on The Rock as first assistant keeper in 1931 and 
retired in... [DOC] [TLE] Coast Guard Lighthouses [PAR] The islands were called Las Mesitas or the Little Tables by De Portola in 1769. 
..... The rock upon which the lighthouse is built measured only 40 by 30 feet at 
high water. .... Point Bonita Light Station had the first fog signal on the West Coast
. [DOC] [TLE] lighthouse - The History of Alcatraz [PAR] Therefore, a lighthouse on an island makes a heady combination, especially 
when the island is Alcatraz in its first light was the first light on the Pacific Coast. ... 
The attic also had two rooms, with the tower and the stairway separating them. ... 
contractors dispatched a ship load of men and materials to the West Coast in 
1852. [DOC] [TLE] Alcatraz - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com [PAR] The federal prison on Alcatraz Island in the chilly waters of California's San ... No 
inmate ever successfully escaped The Rock, as the prison was ... Also during this 
time, Alcatraz became home to the West Coast's first operational lighthouse. ... By 
the late 1850s, the U.S. Army had begun holding military prisoners at Alcatraz. [DOC] [TLE] The Rock: A History of Alcatraz Island, 18471972 - National Park ... [PAR] B. The Rock Is a Rock: A Description. / 1. C. Alcatraz ..... manuscript study on 
West Coast lights, which was most useful in this work. ... On the island stood the 
first lighthouse ..... had a (Spanish) battery or fort on it; it was not a fort named. "
Point. [DOC] [TLE] BOP: Alcatraz [PAR] By the late 1850s, the first military prisoners were being housed on the island. ... It 
was this prison building that later became famous as "The Rock." ... At Alcatraz, a 
prisoner had four rights: food, clothing, shelter, and medical care. .... the island, 
including a monument to the United Nations, a West Coast version of the Statue... [DOC] [TLE] Legendary Lighthouses: Great Lighthouses-Maine - PBS [PAR] West Quoddy Light, Seguin Island Light ... It would have been the 12th colonial 
light, but Massachusetts had fallen hard times and couldn't ... (the letter is in 
Lighthouses of the Maine Coast, see Bibliography: Sterling, p. ... we decried land 
that we called Savage Rock, because the savages first showed themselves there.
.. [DOC] [TLE] Alcatraz - The Rock - CULTUREIFY [PAR] Whatever name it's called, Alcatraz, the rocky island set in the middle of San ... 
site of the first lighthouse and US Army Fortress on the west coast and a 
birthplace of ... By 1848, United States had claimed the Island, formerly belonging 
to Spain... [DOC] [TLE] Lighthouses of Southwestern Ireland (Munster) [PAR] The Irish language is spoken commonly as a first or second language in Ireland. 
.... This is Ireland's highest lighthouse; it had a range of 45 km (28 mi) until 2003, 
.... lighthouses remain on the seventh hole of the Old Head Golf Links, called the 
..... coast of Valentia (Dairbhre) Island about 1.2 km (3/4 mi) west of Knightstown. [DOC] [TLE] Matinicus Rock Light history - New England Lighthouses: A Virtual ... [PAR] The Coast Guard keepers, who sometimes called Matinicus Rock "Alcatraz," 
were removed. A heliport had been installed on the Rock to move

Question: This island, called "The Rock," had the first lighthouse on the West Coast
Answer: Alcatraz