Rachel and Benajah Wolcott Cutout
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N 41° 30.885 W 082° 44.499
17T E 354667 N 4597366
Cutout at the Benajah Wolcott House
Waymark Code: WM774N
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 09/12/2009
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?This cutout is located at the Benajah Wolcott House, a museum owned by the Ottawa County Historical Society. The museum is open afternoons till 5:00pm, and admission is FREE.
The home has been restored to its early-1800's condition, and shows visitors what life was like 200 years ago.
One of the first settlers on the Marblehead Peninsula was Benajah Wolcott (1762-1832). He married Rachel Miller on March 10, 1822. On June 24 he was appointed keeper of the newly completed lighthouse on Marblehead. Both the lighthouse and Wolcott's home were built by William Kelly of limestone from an early quarry a short distance from the back of the house. The government appropriated funds for the building of the lighthouse itself and for a home for the keeper.
Benajah Wolcott was keeper of the lighthouse until his death due to the cholera epidemic of 1832 at the age of seventy. At this time the Treasury Department appointed Benajah's wife, Rachel, to become the first female lighthouse keeper on the Great Lakes on October 25, 1832.
The home is the oldest surviving home in Ottawa County.
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