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From The Archives: Going For Groceries

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William Maynard Chapel (r), who was the lighthouse keeper at New York’s Plum Island Lighthouse in Gardner’s Bay, Long Island Sound from 1913 to 1930, is shown here in the lighthouse vessel that he used to get supplies. Keeper Chapel had been getting his groceries at adjacent Fort Terry, but in 1916 when the practice was disallowed, he had to go two miles across the water to Orient Point for supplies. However, many of the supplies he needed were not available in Orient Point, so he had to travel 12 miles across Long Island Sound to New London, Connecticut. The other man shown on the boat (l) is not known.

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