 Local legend claims that the brick and stone used in construction were sent out from Britain as ballast; in fact local brick yards and quarries supplied these materials, while the lens, lamp apparatus and lantern room were accompanied from England by the first keeper, Mr. George Davies, in 1859.The cast-iron spiral staircase in the tower was made in sections in San Francisco.Fisgard first showed a light from the tower at sunset on 16 November 1860.