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Katherine Walker (née Katharina Görtler; November 25, 1848 [1] – February 5, 1931) was a German-American lighthouse keeper. Walker tended the Robbins Reef Light in New York Harbor for more than 30 years after the death of her husband, Captain John Walker, who had been appointed keeper of the light in 1885. [ 2 ]
The structure is also called Kate's Light for Kate Walker who "manned" the station alone after the death of her husband Captain John Walker in 1886, until 1919. She rowed her children to school in Bayonne. Herman Westgate was the last keeper of the lighthouse before it was finally automated.
Lighthouse keeper Katherine Walker, c.1909. The ships' fresh water tanks can hold 7,339 gallons. [9] She also has three ballast tanks that can be filled to maintain trim, and tanks for oily waste water, sewage, gray water, new lubrication oil, and waste oil. [9] Accommodations were designed for mixed gender crews from the start.
Right across the harbor is Walker's Point, the summer retreat for the Bush family, two of whom were president. Goat Island Lighthouse even played a role in U.S. diplomacy in the summer of 2007 ...
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Katherine Walker was an American lighthouse keeper. Katherine Walker may also refer to: Kathryn Walker, American actress; Catherine Walker (actor) (born 1975), Irish actor; Catherine Walker (fashion designer) (1945–2010), London-based French fashion designer
William Tate (lighthouse keeper) W. Katherine Walker; Elizabeth Whitney Williams This page was last edited on 1 November 2020, at 20:03 (UTC). ...
Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson play a pair of 19th-century New England lighthouse keepers stranded on a remote island by a storm. Come for the unraveling of manly sanities, stay for Dafoe's ...