2869. (photo) Keeper Joseph Hindley with wife Charlotte, Last Civilian Keepers, Nobska Lighthouse, Falmouth, Mass. c.1973.
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2869. (photo) Keeper Joseph Hindley with wife Charlotte, Last Civilian Keepers, Nobska Lighthouse, Falmouth, Mass. c.1973.
2869. (photo) Keeper Joseph Hindley with wife Charlotte, Last Civilian Keepers, Nobska Lighthouse, Falmouth, Mass. c.1973. Prominent Nobska Point was an ideal place for a lighthouse. In 1829, the year the lighthouse was established, it was reported that more than 10,000 vessels passed through the area. The Coast Guard took over the management of lighthouses in 1939, but civilian keepers remained at Nobska Point Light until November 1973. Osborne Hallett was principal keeper at Nobska Lighthouse from 1955 to 1968, and Joseph Hindley was his assistant. Hindley took over as keeper in 1968. When he retired in 1973, Hindley was believed to be the last civilian lighthouse keeper in New England. His career in the Lighthouse Service dated back to 1927, when he was an assistant at Whale Rock Light in Rhode Island. Period press photograph measures 7 ¼” x 9” and includes caption in which Keeper Hindley notes that after spending 46 years staring at the ocean “It was all pretty boring…” At the time of the photo, Keeper Hindley with his wife live in retirement in Falmouth. Clean, clear, wire photo b/w. (VG). $110.