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RE: Buy me a Lighthouse with Market Friday

in Market Friday2 years ago

Living in a lighthouse feels somewhat akin to me as maybe a park ranger. One imagines long spans of solitude and hot tea to keep you company. I think it would be lovely to live in some remote park ranger cabin or lighthouse, well at least for part of the year.

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Lighthouse keepers became civil service employees in 1896. The care of the nation’s lighthouses moved from agency to agency until 1910, when Congress created the Bureau of Lighthouses. The U.S. Coast Guard took over responsibility in 1939.

Except for Boston Light, all of our lighthouses are now automated, although they still have keepers and there are even whole families that live the life. It has a history that is interesting.

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