Hendricks Head Lighthouse Southport Island, Maine
by Dawna Moore Photography
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Hendricks Head Lighthouse Southport Island, Maine
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Dawna Moore Photography
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Photograph - Nature And Travel Photography
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"Jaruel Marr was appointed keeper of the Hendricks Head Lighthouse in 1866 to compensate him in part for injuries he sustained while fighting in the Civil War. Jaruel had walked sixty miles to Portland to enlist in the Union Army, leaving his wife Catherine and three children behind. During the conflict, he was wounded and incarcerated in a Confederate prison in Virginia, where he was nursed back to health by a fellow-prisoner and Union Army doctor named Wolcott. To honor the doctor, Jaruel and his wife named their next child Wolcott." (lighthousefriends.com)
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September 13th, 2015
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