Point Fermin Lighthouse

This guide to Point Fermin Lighthouse in San Pedro follows sisters Mary and Ella Smith, who climbed this bluff in 1874 to become its first keepers, tending the lens nightly with barely another house in sight. You'll hear why they both left the post within a year of each other in the early 1880s, and about the showman keeper who later gave tours here. Look for the square lookout shack built onto the tower two days after Pearl Harbor, when the light itself went dark.