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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

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,

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

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

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

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