Digest>Mar/Apr 2021

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This original telegram was sent by head keeper William Hill at Tillamook Rock via a homemade shortwave radio transmitter to local ham operators at Seaside to pass on to the 17th District office in Portland apprising them of the severe damage done by the October 1934 storm. (Lighthouse Digest archives)
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Siblings in Service: William and Henry Hill
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