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Linda’s Monthly Monday Morning Moaning’s Harriett Colfax served as the keeper of the Michigan City Lighthouse for 43 years from her appointment in 1861 until her retirement at age 80 in 1904. The oldest, stanchest and most reliable lighthouse keeper in the United States is a women. A little, fragile, pretty maid of more thanContinue reading “Harriet Colfax, part 2”

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Linda’s Monthly, Monday Morning Moaning’s, not quite as catchy, but will have to do. I am going to step a wee bit away from the ‘local history stories’ I usually try to write, but this is in keeping with the research I am doing, which differently takes me away from local history anyway. The slowContinue reading “Harriet Colfax, Lighthouse Keeper”

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