"Sarah E. Johnson - Humboldt's Bay's First Lighthouse Keeper" with Peggy Wheeler
Channel: Humboldt County Historical Society
Date: 2020-03-19

Presentation by Peggy Wheeler - Saturday, December 1, 2018 at the Humboldt County Library (Eureka, CA). Hosted by the Humboldt County Historical Society.

Peggy Wheeler will tell the story of Humboldt’s only known female lighthouse keeper. Sarah Johnson began tending the Humboldt Harbor Lighthouse in 1857 as a widow with a newborn baby and five other children. 

”I hope to take the audience with me,” Wheeler says, “as the layers of Sarah’s story reveal themselves through a parade of resources: international records, federal archives, local maps and documents, newspaper and magazine articles, genealogy sites, oral histories from descendants, and one very special photograph.”