![]() Our assumption has always been that she was trying to remove some of that ahead of the fire,” says Lindquist. “The interior of the lighthouse burned completely and she was found…her remains were found in the room where the oil was stored. Unfortunately, in the spring of 1886, Mary died in a fire at the lighthouse. Light Service did and apparently she was quite competant to do her work. ![]() ‘Whitewashed the north wall of the lighthouse today’ that sort of thing because they had strict rules, the U.S. “If you think that people in recent years have thought women were little weaklings, imagine what they thought about it in the late 1800s and she managed to take care of the lighthouse but there was a lot of work,” begins Keller, “When we had copies of the logbook, it would have very brief 2-3 word sentences about, not only the ships coming in and out, but what work was done. Photo courtesy the Delta County Historical Society Here she is seen leaning against the entrance to the lighthouse. It was then that Ida’s mother, also named Idawalley Zorada Lewis, became the official keeper. Sadly, in October 1857, he suffered a severe stroke and became unable to continue his duties as lightkeeper. She even worked supplement jobs in the off-season and owned land in town, something very unusual for women of this time. Lewis became keeper of Lime Rock Light at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1854 when Ida was 12-years-old. In 1868 Mary became one of the first female lighthouse keepers on the Great Lakes and for 19 years she did the hard work on her own. “So when the light was first lit, she was the very first keeper.” “There was a lot of opposition to her appointment from local political leaders but people in the town, the general population of the city, loved her and thought she was a very capable woman,” says Lindquist. So she was appointed in his place,” explains Karen Lindquist, Chair of the Archives Committee for the Delta County Historical Society. “He died before the building was completed and before the light was commissioned. John Terry, Mary’s husband, was originally chosen to run the Sand Point Lighthouse. “Her courage was amazing and I think she deserves all the recognition we can give her,” says Elizabeth Keller, Vice-Chair of the Delta County Historical Society and Co-Chair of the Sand Point Lighthouse Committee. The first official lighthouse keeper of Sand Point was a woman named Mary Terry. Its a really great article, one of the best I’ve seen on the Lighthouse, so go read the entire thing here.ESCANABA - The Sand Point Lighthouse is a historical landmark in Delta County but the first nineteen years of its service is often overlooked. 10, 1859, “Monday last … (Joseph Andreu) was engaged in white washing the tower of the Light House” when the scaffolding gave way and he fell 60 feet. Her appointment came after her husband died on the job. Maria Andreu thus became not only the first Hispanic-American woman to serve in the Coast Guard but also the first to command a federal shore installation, say officials. Augustine Lighthouse after her husband, Juan, died. In 1859 she assumed the watch as the lighthouse keeper at St. Maria Mestre de los Dolores Andreu stands out both in the annals of the U.S. The Minorcans collectively escaped from the plantation and came to resettle in St. It is based on the life of Stella Prince the only woman to serve as a keeper at Horton. She and her husband came from the island of Minorca and worked on the Turnbull plantation at New Smyrna. The Lady Lighthouse Keeper is Mary Korpis first historical fiction book. Coast Guard (though at the time, the agency managing Lighthouses was known as the U.S. Augustine’s diverse heritage, this pioneer was the first Hispanic woman to serve in this post, and is also considered the first Hispanic woman to serve in the U.S. ![]() Augustine Record today, that also ran in Jacksonville’s Florida Times-Union, about the woman who served as a Lighthouse Keeper and it happened right here, in St. It was here that Minorcan resident Maria Andreu served as Lighthouse Keeper after her husband, the former Keeper, died in 1859. ![]() Augustine Lighthouse was built of coquina around the 1730s, and collapsed into the sea just three years after the present-day tower was completed in 1874. ![]()
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