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It was believed for there to be a watch house at first.
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The house saw the action unwind when the Nautilus exchanged shots with the shore.
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It was used as a barracks in The War of 1812.
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It burned down in the year of 1849.
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The Lighthouse Board requested funds "to complete the lighting" of Salem Harbor in 1869, and $30,000 was appropriated by Congress on July 15, 1870, for that purpose.
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There was a temporary light put there. By the following year, a 45-foot- square brick lighthouse and adjacent two-story keeper's house were completed.
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The longest serving keeper at Hospital Point was Joseph Henry Herrick, who served from 1873 to 1917. Herrick was a Beverly native who had worked as a shoemaker in the city, and he was also a veteran of the Civil War.
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A brick oil house, built in 1902, also still stands.
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He stopped serving the light house.
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On May 1, 1927, the lighthouse officially became the Hospital Point Range Front Light.
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Became keeper in 1939. During World War II, Keeper Small maintained a shore patrol in the area and had to check the lights at Derby Wharf and Fort Pickering in addition to Hospital Point.
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The keeper’s house still stands, with major additions made in 1941, 1968, and 1986, and much of its original trim removed.
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The keeper's dwelling was altered in 1941 to provide barracks for 20 men.
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A garage was added to the station in 1942.
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The lighthouse was automated in 1947, and since then this tidy lighthouse station has been home to the commander of the First Coast Guard District and his or her family.
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The steeple was the only part of the church to survive a disastrous fire in 1975.
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Modern day lighthouse
