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Robert Thayer Sterling was the last principle keeper of the United States Lighthouse Service to serve at Portland Head Lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. He joined the U.S. Lighthouse Service in 1915 and became an assistant keeper at Portland Head Lighthouse in 1928 and became the head keeper in 1944 and retired in 1946. His book, Lighthouse of the Maine Coast and The Men Who Kept Them, helped to save a large segment of lighthouse history that otherwise might have been lost forever. The book was published in 1935 and was so popular that it had a second edition printing in 1936 and a third edition in 1938. Many of Sterling’s photographs that were not published in his book were published many years later in the book, Portland Head Light, A Pictorial Journey Through Time, by Lighthouse Digest editor Timothy Harrison. We believe that Robert Thayer Sterling should be honored with his image on a postage stamp and have special recognition on August 7, 2014 on the 225th anniversary of the federalization of our nation’s lighthouses. (Lighthouse Digest archives)
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U.S. Senate Declares National Lighthouse Day
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