That meant although a keeper lived there and was paid for his work, anyone an official, a civilian, or military could arrive at the lighthouse and ask for shelter or. "It is truly an honor and a privilege to be the only female Coast Guard lighthouse keeper in the country," she says. A lighthouse was the home of the keeper, assistant keepers, and/or their families, but it was first and foremost an aid to navigation. (Raymond Farley) In my 32 years as a lighthouse keeper I serviced 22 lighthouses not as many as some The industry went. Hannah Thomas was America's first female lighthouse keeper, working 1776-1786 at Gurnet Point Lighthouse in Plymouth, Massachusetts, after replacing her husband, General John Thomas, when he was killed in the Revolutionary War.Īnd now Snowman, a professor who taught 1987-2004 in the Masters of Education program at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts, carries on that tradition. San Pablo Bay is part of the larger San Francisco Bay. The average salary of a lighthouse keeper is about 167,00 per year. On an idyllic island in the San Pablo Bay, the East Brother Light Station, a lighthouse-turned-inn, is seeking a pair of new keepers. Lighthouse keepers were sometimes referred to as 'wickies' because of their job trimming the wicks. The salary for a lighthouse keeper will vary depending on if the keeper lives in the lighthouse or not. They usually mentored boys to carry on the lighthouse tasks, but some wives and daughters became keepers after their husbands or fathers died. 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.
She is also Boston Light's historian and says it could take years to compile historical data and store it electronically.īoston Light is the only Coast Guard Lighthouse with a keeper, because the agency turned over the care of others to private owners and federal, state and local government agencies.Ĭenturies ago, Snowman says, lighthouse keepers were typically male sea captains with knowledge and experience maintaining structures and equipment in marine environments. Now, because of the pandemic, she works at her home or a mainland Coast Guard base, and the Coast Guard provides scheduled visits to the island to identify any safety or maintenance issues. Jeff was tired of piecing together low-paying part-time jobs and, with Carolines encouragement, applied for a position as a relief lightkeeper on a remote.
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