While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
- Lighthouses send out crucial light signals to help ships and other watercraft navigate at night.
- Before automation, lighthouses were run by lighthouse keepers. Elizabeth Riley was the lighthouse keeper at North Point Light in Maryland.
- She held this position from 1834 to 1857.
- Thelma Austin was the lighthouse keeper at Point Fermin Light in California.
- She held this position from 1925 to 1941.