Ida Lewis: The Girl Who Kept Lime Rock Burning; a Heroic Live-Saver

This is a short but engaging account of the life of Ida Lewis, the heroic keeper of Lime Rock Lighthouse in Newport, Rhode Island. It is an extract from 'Ten American Girls from History', a book written by Kate Dickinson Sweetser and published in 1917. (1 MiB, PDF, 20 pages)

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