Prior to their time at the lighthouse, they lived at their family home on Prince Street (now Mechanic Street) in the middle of downtown Southold.
Korpi also found a family genealogical history kept by Helen Wright Prince, who is well known on the North Fork for her work teaching in migrant labor camps here in the 1950s and 1960s, which show that their family was descended from a noted New Bedford whaling captain, John Prince. “She outlived her daughters and husband and died at the age of 89. “I got a sense from the letters about about her mother’s loving support and her choices about not dealing with her father’s alcoholism,” said Ms. McCarthy, who works for the Southold Free Library’s Whitaker Historical Collection, sent her tidbits he found in old records - Stella was on the honor roll at the Southold School, which was in the building that is now the Southold firehouse, and he found three letters from her mother. “I didn’t get any sense of her personality,” from those log books, said Ms. Prince primarily entered weather notations and didn’t include any comments. Folk found log books from the lighthouse, in which Ms. She turned to local historians Amy Folk and Dan McCarthy looking for more information. Korpi knew Stella was officially commended by President Theodore Roosevelt on her appointment as lighthouse keeper in 1903, she couldn’t find anything written about her in books about lighthouse keepers.
Then they switched to kerosene, which was likely the cause of their early deaths.” “Whale oil burned clean, but when they switched to lard oil it was smoky and they had to clean the lens more often.
Korpi at a recent reading from “The Lady Lighthouse Keeper” at the New Suffolk Waterfront. “Everybody in a lighthouse family helped get the light lit every night and keep soot from building up on the lens. Prince lived at the lighthouse with her family - her father, George, a carpenter mother Caroline and her sister Lucy, where the family shared the duties of keeping up the lighthouse. Mary Korpi reads from “The Lady Lighthouse Keeper” at the New Suffolk Waterfront in mid-July. The 58-foot-tall concrete lighthouse tower is attached to a two-story Federalist-style keeper’s house. Korpi says there’s no record of anyone dying there, though there were 17 shipwrecks there before the lighthouse was built, due to a ledge where there depth of water goes from 60 to 5 feet, along with glacial erratic boulders that are a hazard to navigation. The Horton Point Lighthouse, commissioned by George Washington in 1790 but not built until 1857, overlooks a treacherous coastline known as “Dead Man’s Cove.” But Ms.
Her book, “The Lady Lighthouse Keeper,” was released this spring, and is available for sale at Burton’s Books in Greenport, Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor, the Jamesport Country Store, North Fork Chocolates, Southold Pharmacy, the Southold Historical Museum Store, the Fire Island Lighthouse and the Horton Point Lighthouse. Prince’s life about four years ago, as she embarked on a historical novel about Ms. Korpi began working with local historians to exhaustively research Ms. Prince, who lived with her family at the lighthouse from the time she was three years old in 1871 to when she married at 37, and who served as the official keeper of the lighthouse from 1903 to 1904. Mary Korpi, a docent at the lighthouse and retired vocational rehabilitation counselor who retired here in 2017, was fascinated to learn about Ms. The Horton Point Lighthouse, tucked away on a cliff in Southold overlooking the Long Island Sound, is one of the less-well-known lighthouses on the East End, and the story of its first female lighthouse keeper, Stella Prince, has until this year gone largely untold.
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