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Lighthouse keeper George Codding is shown here in December, 1938 in front of the building that was built as the lighthouse keeper’s control station when the Rochester Harbor Lights were automated. The sign on the front of the building says, “Department of Commerce, U.S. Lighthouse Service, Lighthouse, Fog Signal Radiobeacon Control Station.” This made the lighthouse keeper’s job much easier than in the days when he had to walk the long breakwater in all kinds of weather to tend the lighthouses. Codding said the place was then lonesome, unlike the days when people would constantly walk on the pier to visit him. Here at the new location all he had to do was turn the light on and off and monitor the equipment. A local newspaper in an interview with Codding at the time said, “On clear days there is nothing to do but dust off the window sills, the desks and the machinery and mop the floor and then sit and sit. Occasionally classes of school boys interested in radio or some mechanically minded men will come and ask many serious questions.”
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The Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse and the Lights of Rochester Harbor
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