Woman Lighthouse Keeper Serves Coast Guard on Chesapeake Bay. The only woman lighthouse keeper in the Coast Guard service, Mrs. Fanny May Salters goes topside at the Turkey Point light, near Baltimore, on Chesapeake Bay, for her daily checkup of the great beacon. On her vigilant watch for the past 20 years, the safety of mariners moving up the bay has depended. Before he died in 1925, her husband served Turkey Point Light with Mrs. Salters as his assistant. When not busy with the light, Mrs. Salters devotes herself to her hobbies... a three acre garden plot and cross word puzzles.
Woman Lighthouse Keeper Serves Coast Guard on Chesapeake Bay. The only woman lighthouse keeper in the Coast Guard service, Mrs. Fanny May Salters goes topside at the Turkey Point light, near Baltimore, on Chesapeake Bay, for her daily checkup of the great beacon. On her vigilant watch for the past 20 years, the safety of mariners moving up the bay has depended. Before he died in 1925, her husband served Turkey Point Light with Mrs. Salters as his assistant. When not busy with the light, Mrs. Salters devotes herself to her hobbies... a three acre garden plot and cross word puzzles.
Woman Lighthouse Keeper Serves Coast Guard on Chesapeake Bay. The only woman lighthouse keeper in the Coast Guard service, Mrs. Fanny May Salters goes topside at the Turkey Point light, near Baltimore, on Chesapeake Bay, for her daily checkup of the great beacon. On her vigilant watch for the past 20 years, the safety of mariners moving up the bay has depended. Before he died in 1925, her husband served Turkey Point Light with Mrs. Salters as his assistant. When not busy with the light, Mrs. Salters devotes herself to her hobbies... a three acre garden plot and cross word puzzles.
