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Shown here is lighthouse keeper William Hall Schellenger, along with his wife Hattie Mae and their dog Trixie. Schellenger served as keeper at Delaware’s Harbor of Refuge Lighthouse from March 1914 to 1917 and as keeper of the Fort Mifflin Range Lights along the Delaware River. He retired as a lighthouse keeper in 1941 and died in 1965 in Deltaville, Virginia.
He served at the original wooden tower of Harbor of Refuge Light, which was destroyed by a series of storms from 1920-1922. The present steel caisson tower that stands there today replaced it.
Thanks to William C. Stroh for helping us to save this lost part of America’s lighthouse history, which will now be saved in the archives of the American Lighthouse Foundation.
This story appeared in the
December 2004 edition of Lighthouse Digest Magazine. The print edition contains more stories than our internet edition, and each story generally contains more photographs - often many more - in the print edition. For subscription information about the print edition, click here.
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