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House of Refuge Museum Keepers' Grave Marker Placement Ceremony program, 2017
Ceremony held 16 May 2017 at Fernhill Memorial Gardens. Program sheet includes a timeline and the names of participants for the ceremony. The program also includes biographies of Hubert Bessey and William Rea, both served as keepers at the Gilbert's Bar House of Refuge. -
Boy on Bethel Creek House of Refuge porch, 1906
Photograph published in Gilbert's Bar House Of Refuge - Home Of History by Sandra Henderson Thurlow and Deanna Wintercorn Thurlow (p. 16) with the caption "All houses of refuge had decorative porch rail braces like those in this 1906 photograph of Bethel Creek House of Refuge."
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Ross Witham with baby turtle, c. 1962
Photograph published in Gilbert's Bar House Of Refuge - Home Of History by Sandra Henderson Thurlow and Deanna Wintercorn Thurlow (p. 72) with the caption "Ross Witham's life changed one day in 1956 when he was walking on the beach south of the House of Refuge as therapy for a knee injury sustained during WWII. He came across a baby loggerhead turtle entangled in seaweed. The incident inspired a career in marine biology with particular emphasis on sea turtles. This photograph taken by Ed Glucker in the early 1960s, shows Ross with a turtle hatched from an egg incubated at the House of Refuge Museum."
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Visitors at Gilbert's Bar station, c. 1940
Group portrait at the Gilbert's Bar Coast Guard Station. Edith Segerstrom (right) stands on the porch with friends visiting from Miami.
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On the House of Refuge pier, 1898
Photograph published in Gilbert's Bar House Of Refuge - Home Of History by Sandra Henderson Thurlow and Deanna Wintercorn Thurlow (p. 20) with the caption "Susan Bessey stands on the dock at Gilbert's Bar House of Refuge with her sister Bessie Shackleford sitting beside her. Their father, W. A. Corbin (1828-1908), sits on the porch. This photograph taken by Mr. and Mrs. Will Harris of Walton, in 1898, is the best known photograph of Gilbert's Bar House of Refuge before the upper row of windows were added around 1911."
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Beach portrait, c. 1940
Group portrait in military uniforms and on the beach. Men identified as (back row, left to right) Clinton Bownds, unidentified and Qurlie Humble; (front) G. W. Brockman and Clifton Bownds. -
House of Refuge, c. 1962
View of the House of Refuge at Gilbert's Bar, photographed during the early 1960s.