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This old photo shows Race Point Keeper, James W. Hinckley who was Keeper from 1920 to 1937. Hinckley had to carry fifteen pounds of groceries tow and half miles to the light from Provincetown. He finally bought a horse, but the horse had difficulty in the deep soft sand. In 1935 he built what was possibly the first dune buggy to help him get supplies from town. When he retired from the U.S. Lighthouse Service on his 70th birthday on December 25, 1937 he appealed to the Lighthouse Service to give pensions to the widows of lighthouse keepers, since they were required do as much and sometimes more than the keepers themselves.
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Race Point Restoration & Dedication
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