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2. Lighthouse keeper - Wikipedia

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   A lighthouse keeper or lightkeeper is a person responsible for tending and caring for a lighthouse, particularly the light and lens in the days when oil lamps and clockwork mechanisms were used. Lighthouse keepers were sometimes referred to as " wickies " because of their job trimming the wicks. [1]

3. Big Sable Point Light - Wikipedia

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   A volunteer keeper program makes is possible for volunteers to live and work in the lighthouse for two week periods. There is a waiting list to do this. Tours are available, and events do occur (a calendar is available). Bus transportation is available June 24, July 13 & 29, August 12 & 26th and September 23, 2017.

4. Yaquina Head Light - Wikipedia

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   The Yaquina Head Light, also known early in its existence as the Cape Foulweather Lighthouse (though Cape Foul Weather is 4 miles to the north) is a lighthouse on the Oregon Coast of the United States, established in 1873. It is located in Lincoln County, near Newport at Yaquina Head. The tower stands 93 feet (28 m) tall, and is the tallest ...

5. St. Augustine Light - Wikipedia

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   The St. Augustine Light Station is a privately maintained aid to navigation and an active, working lighthouse in St. Augustine, Florida. [2] The current lighthouse stands at the north end of Anastasia Island and was built between 1871 and 1874. The tower is the second lighthouse tower in St. Augustine, the first being lit officially by the ...

6. Ida Lewis - Wikipedia

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   Ida Lewis was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the second oldest of four children of Captain Hosea Lewis of the Revenue-Marine. Her father was transferred to the Lighthouse Service and appointed keeper of Lime Rock Light on the small near-island Lime Rock in Newport in 1854, taking his family to live on the rock in 1857. [4]

7. Julia Frances Curry Williams - Wikipedia

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   Her lighthouse years. In 1856, the Williams family moved to Santa Barbara where Albert was offered the position of keeper for the newly built lighthouse. He only served as keeper for a few years, and after a couple of other keepers came and went, Julia was offered the position in 1865. Her husband moved to the city.