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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. 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]

4. 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)

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. SS City of Columbus - Wikipedia

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   Lighthouse keeper Horiatio N. Pease and a complement of Gay Head Wampanoag Native Americans braved the waves in two lifeboats to save passengers that had held on. The sea was so rough that the Wampanoags' feared approaching the steamer would cause their own boat to get smashed, so they called to the men to dive off the rigging and come to the ...

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]