 The Baltimore firm of Gibbons and Kelly was awarded the contract to build seven lighthouses in California, at Alcatraz Island, Fort Point, Point Pinos, Point Loma, Farallon Island, and Humboldt Bay, and one at Cape Disappointment in Washington state.Equipment were shipped on Oriole, reached San Francisco on January 29, 1853.The Alcatraz Lighthouse was the first to be completed in July 1853, making it the oldest major navigational light on the West Coast.