[4] First recommendations for construction of a lighthouse at the Ulladulla Harbour were made in 1868, enabling night activity at the port.

[5] Construction of a lighthouse at the Ulladulla Harbour breakwater was initiated by Edward Orpen Moriarty MA MInstCE, Engineer in Chief of the New South Wales Harbours and Rivers Department, together with a second lighthouse at Belmore Basin, Wollongong.

[3] In 1889 the lighthouse was relocated to its current location on Warden Head, under the supervision of James Barnet, still the Colonial Architect.

[7] In the 1940s a car park was developed at Warden Head by the Ulladulla Council to encourage visitors to the lighthouse.

[8] Records of the Milton Post Office of 1904 list "Hansen J. Lighthouse keeper (Ulladulla)".

The plates were created in Joseph Mather's foundry at Wollongong and assembled on the original site at the Ulladulla Breakwater.