Monday, August 4, 2025

Point Lookout Lighthouse Summer 2025

 

We visited the newly renovated Point Lookout Lighthouse June 9th (which is open on 4 day weekends through the summer). I wanted to see if there were any photos of one of my friends who grew up there, Eunice Knott, and finally found one photo of her on the wall in her graduation gown. There was a nice exhibit about different types of buoys, including a tall spar buoy (red and white) and newer 6x20 LR (green). Inside the lighthouse, the Friends of Point Lookout put in some furnishings. The clock resembled a clock I grew up with that my grandparents owned. I once took a bad photo of Mr. Raymond Hartzel, enlisted Coast Guard, who worked for George Gatton, last civilian lighthouse keeper on July 11, 2009 while he was visiting. Raymond Hartzel link. I didn't go up to the very top when I noticed the entrance was very small for someone with a large camera and poor balance, but I found the old photo I took on July 11, 2009.


2009

Old clock like my grandparent's clock

Lighthouse low view


Eunice Knott in the middle, friend who lived at the lighthouse

Last civilian lighthouse keeper, George Gatton from an album


Ranger taking down the colors


Buoy exhibit



Bald eagle