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2. Marblehead Light (Ohio) - Wikipedia

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   The Marblehead Lighthouse Historical Society operates the Marblehead Lighthouse Museum in the old keeper's house. Exhibits include the lighthouse, a Fresnel lens, ice harvesting, ice fishing, the local maritime industry, ships, a replica Lifesaving Station, local fossils, and shipwrecks. Visitors can take tours of the lighthouse tower in the ...

3. List of lighthouses in Ohio - Wikipedia

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   Conneaut West Breakwater Lighthouse: Conneaut: N/A 1936 1972 Active 375mm Unknown Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Light (Originally: West Pierhead) Fairport Harbor: 1911 (Former) 1925 (Current) Unknown Active (Also a private home) Unknown 56 ft (17 m)

4. 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]

5. South Bass Island Light - Wikipedia

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   90000473 [ 1] Added to NRHP. April 05, 1990. South Bass Island Light is a lighthouse on the southern end of its eponymous island in Lake Erie. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on April 5, 1990 [ 1] and is thought to be the only lighthouse in the United States owned by a university - Ohio State. [ 2][ 3]

6. Ashtabula Harbor Light - Wikipedia

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   The first light marking Ashtabula's harbor was built in 1836, a short hexagonal wooden tower standing on a wooden crib just off the eastern pier. [5] This used the oil lamps typical of the time and remained in service until replaced by a new tower on the west pier, a pyramidal tower with clapboard sides. [6][7] This change was prompted by ...

7. 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]