Meet the World’s Oldest Active Lighthouse: Torre de Hércules
The Torre de Hercules, the world’s oldest active lighthouse, is in the city of A Coruna in the Spanish province of Galicia. It stands some 180 feet high and was
The United States Lighthouse Service: What’s in a Name?
er…that’s the United States Lighthouse Establishment. The Lighthouse Board? Oh, wait a minute, it says here: The United States Bureau of Lighthouses? Ahem, what’s a Coast Guard? Where did that
You’ll Never Get Rich….
United States Lighthouse Keepers were paid a lower-middle class wage, and, yes it frequently came with housing.* Boston’s first keeper, George Worthylake, the first known American lighthouse keeper, received what
Lighting a Nation: Early American Lighthouses and Federal Leadership
Let’s look at the early American lighthouses and the leadership of America’s lighthouses. From the get-go in 1716, until the establishment of the Ninth Act of Congress federalizing American lighthouse,
So, You Want To Be A Keeper?
In 1887, Principal Keeper William Rowlinski, was paid $720 a year Two year later, he got a raise to $760. The extra pay was to compensate for the fact that
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