The First Female Lighthouse Keeper: Hannah Thomas, 1776
Between 1828 and 1947 there were 138 women who were officially employed by The United States Lighthouse Establishment or Lighthouse Service as keepers. “Officially employed” does not credit the hundreds
The Amazing Screw-pile Lighthouse
A screw-pile lighthouse is a tower which stands on metal piles screwed into sandy bedrock on the sea, the land, and either river or even lake bottoms. The first screw-pile
Ponce Inlet’s Role in Early Bird Conservation and the Christmas Bird Count
Today, January 5, ends this year’s longest running national community science project called The Christmas Bird Count. The count began this year on December14. The Christmas Bird Count, or CBC
The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Almost Folly
The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, at a height of 194, 199 or 211 feet, depending on whose chart you will stumble upon, is the tallest lighthouse in the United States. Located
Memories of Life at Mosquito Inlet Lighthouse
…as told to me by my father Thomas John O’Hagan and Irene Ball Oral history of Helen O’Hagan Sintes, Keeper Granddaughter – 2005 Thomas Patrick O’Hagan and Julia O’Hagan arrived
William H. Wincapaw…The Flying Santa Claus
You know Dasher and Dancer, and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid, and Donner and Blitzen. But do you recall William Wincapaw, the most famous New England Lighthouse Santa’s helper