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looks like a fun place to grow up.
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The station was originally equipped with a single dwelling for the head keeper and a duplex for the two assistants. Though the two apartments in the duplex were nearly identical, the light fixtures in the first assistant’s side had five bulbs, while those on the second assistant’s side had just four. According to the daughter of a former head keeper, the fixtures in the single dwelling had six bulbs, reflecting the even higher status of the principal keeper. Electricity reduced the keeper’s workload, and in the last 1930s, the position of second assistant keeper was eliminated. The remaining two keepers occupied the duplex, and the single dwelling was razed in 1940. Lumber salvaged from the structure was used to build the Alpha-Bit Café in Mapleton, Oregon, fourteen miles east of Florence.
During World War II, as many as seventy-five coastguardsmen were stationed at Heceta Head as part of a coastal patrol. The commanders lived in half of the duplex, while the enlisted men were housed in barracks erected on the site of the former keeper’s dwelling. Roughly a dozen dogs were kenneled at the station, and they accompanied the men on the patrols that operated twenty-four hours a day and covered the coast between Yachats and Heceta Beach.
from lighthousefriends.c ... =131:
The station was originally equipped with a single dwelling for the head keeper and a duplex for the two assistants. Though the two apartments in the duplex were nearly identical, the light fixtures in the first assistant’s side had five bulbs, while those on the second assistant’s side had just four. According to the daughter of a former head keeper, the fixtures in the single dwelling had six bulbs, reflecting the even higher status of the principal keeper. Electricity reduced the keeper’s workload, and in the last 1930s, the position of second assistant keeper was eliminated. The remaining two keepers occupied the duplex, and the single dwelling was razed in 1940. Lumber salvaged from the structure was used to build the Alpha-Bit Café in Mapleton, Oregon, fourteen miles east of Florence.
During World War II, as many as seventy-five coastguardsmen were stationed at Heceta Head as part of a coastal patrol. The commanders lived in half of the duplex, while the enlisted men were housed in barracks erected on the site of the former keeper’s dwelling. Roughly a dozen dogs were kenneled at the station, and they accompanied the men on the patrols that operated twenty-four hours a day and covered the coast between Yachats and Heceta Beach.