How did Mile Rock get its name?

-- Rich Harned (rharned@jps.net), May 05, 2000

Answers

Richard, That would be interesting to know, since the Mile Rocks Lighthouse, or whatever amputated structure is left, is only half a mile from the shore. Perhaps the name indicated that ships should stay a mile away from the partly submerged rocks, in the middle of the inbound shipping lane, a mile away in safety...

-- Wolfgang Schubert (chouby@aol.com), May 06, 2000.

Mile Rock is a mile south of mid-channel of the main shipping lane into the Golden Gate.

J.

-- John Martin (martini@slip.net), May 07, 2000.