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Historic image of Virginia’s New Point Comfort Lighthouse with the keeper’s house. The station has the distinction of having one of America’s few black lighthouse keepers, J. McHenry Farley, who served there from 1871 to 1873. In a letter, dated June 29, 1872, from the lighthouse inspector to Joseph Henry, Chairman of the Lighthouse Board, in trying to get an assistant keeper assigned to the lighthouse, he described keeper Farley in this way: “The keeper is a colored minister of the gospel and he feels deeply the privation of church privileges. He is proud of his position of Light Keeper – faithful in the performance of this duty and careful to do nothing that will invoke neglect of his light . . .” (Lighthouse Digest archives)
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New Point Comfort Lighthouse Saved
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