Station Ottawa Point [East Tawas]
USLSS Station #4, Tenth District
Coast Guard Station #250
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Location:
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Near light, Lake Huron
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Date of Conveyance:
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1875
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Station Built:
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1876 (?)
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Fate:
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Still in operation; now designated East Tawas
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Remarks: None.
Keepers:
George Haskin was appointed keeper on 26 SEP 1876 and left in 1880 (?)
George W. Plough was appointed keeper on 16 AUG 1880 and resigned on 25 JUN 1886.
George S. Cleary was appointed keeper on 25 JUN 1886 and left 7 DEC 1888 "dispensed with services."
Frank J. Ocha was appointed keeper on 23 NOV 1888 and disappeared on 12 OCT 1896.
Robert M. Small was appointed keeper on 6 NOV 1896 and left in 1914.
James A. Carpenter was appointed keeper in 1915.
Sources:
Station History File, CG Historian’s Office
Dennis L. Noble & Michael S. Raynes. “Register of the Stations and Keepers of the U.S. Life-Saving Service.” Unpublished manuscript, compiled circa 1977, CG Historian’s Office collection.
Ralph Shanks, Wick York & Lisa Woo Shanks. The U.S. Life-Saving Service: Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard. Petaluma, CA: Costaño Books, 1996.
U.S. Treasury Department: Coast Guard. Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers and Cadets and Ships and Stations of the United States Coast Guard, July 1, 1941. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1941.