Keepers Cottage and The Bell
by D Hackett
Title
Keepers Cottage and The Bell
Artist
D Hackett
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
The Lighthouse is St. Augustine's oldest surviving brick structure, and today the site is restored to colors and materials used the year 1888. In 1876, a brick light keeper's house was added to the property, a triplex that held two families and a young, single, 2nd assistant keeper, most often of Menorcan descent. Brick summer kitchens were added in 1886. In 1910 10,000 tourists visited the property. During World War II armed Coastguardsmen stood guard atop the tower, fixed jeeps in the 1836 garage and lived in a small barracks building. Light keepers' and their assistants lived and worked at the Light Station until the tower was automated in 1955. After that time Lamplighters lived off site, but also took over maintaining the buoys in the harbor.
The Bell
Archaeologists discovered a colonial era ship wreck in the summer of 2009 in the water in the St Augustine Inlet. This wreck was named the Storm Wreck and excavation started in 2010. During the excavation cannons, muskets, plates, knives along with numerous other items, including the complete ship’s bell, with it’s wooden headstock and iron clapper intact. This bell was restored and dedicated to a Coast Guard Flight Crew that was killed in the line of duty in 1990.
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May 27th, 2017
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