Keepers
- David Oliver (c. 1811)
- Thomas Hanna (c. 1811-1816)
- Eliphalet Grover (1816–1839)
- Mark Dennet (1840–1841)
- John Thompson (1841–1843)
- Morgan Trafton (1842 assistant keeper, lost in boating accident)
- John Kennard (1843–1846)
- Nathaniel Baker (1849)
- John Thompson (1846–1849)
- Hiram Tobey (1853)
- Caleb S. Gould (1853–1854)
- George Bowden (1854–1855)
- Josiah Tobey Jr. (assistant, 1855)
- Samuel S. Tobey (assistant, 1856)
- Christopher Littlefield (1854)
- Sam Philbrick (1854)
- Charles H. Tobey (assistant 1850, keeper 1856)
- Charles E. Thompson (1858)
- John S. Baker (assistant, 1858)
- Nathaniel Baker (1859)
- William L. Baker (assistant, 1859)
- Cabin (?) Gray (1861)
- George B. Wallace (June 1861-1866)
- Benjamin Bridges (1861)
- George E. Bridges (1864)
- Richard C. Yeaton (1864)
- Charles Ramsdell (assistant 1865)
- Joshua K. Card (1867–1874)
- George H. Yeaton (assistant 1867)
- Samuel Meloon (assistant, 1868)
- Nathan White Jr. (assistant 1870)
- Alfred J. Leavitt (1874-1886?)
- Leander White (1st assistant, 1874)
- Edwin J. Hobbs (assistant, 1874–1876)
- David R. Grogan (assistant, 1876, keeper 1879)
- George O. Leavitt (assistant, 1878)
- Walter S. Amee (Ames?) (2nd assistant, 1878)
- John Kennard (1884)
- William C. Williams (1st assistant 1885, then keeper 1885-1911)
- James Burke (2nd assistant, 1886–1887, 1st assistant 1887-1890)
- Orrin M. Lamprey (1886)
- Meshach M. Seaward (2nd assistant, 1886–1900)
- Leonidas H. Sawyer (2nd assistant, 1889. keeper 1889)
- Charles W. Allen (2nd assistant, 1907–1911, first assistant 1911-?)
- Mitchell Blackwood (c. 1911)
- Harold Hutchins (c. 1923-1933)
- Fred C. Batty (assistant, c. early 1930s)
- Clinton Dalzell (assistant c. 1934)
- George Woodward (assistant?, c. 1920s)
- C. A. Tracy (c. 1935)
- Hoyt P. Smith (c. 1935)
- E. Stockbridge, assistant (c. 1935)
- Charles U. Gardner (Coast Guard relief keeper, c, 1942–1943)
- John H. Morris (Coast Guard, c. 1945)
- Ted Guice (Coast Guard assistant, c. 1945)
- Kendrick Capon (Coast Guard, c. 1950s)
- Harold L. Roberts (Coast Guard, 1956)
- Leonard John "Moon" Mullen (Coast Guard, c.1956)
- Charles Allen (1st assistant, c. 1957, served 6 years)
- Robert Brann (c. 1958)
- Dave Wells (Coast Guard, 1966)
- August "Gus" Pfister (Coast Guard, 1967–1968)
- Bob Roberts (Coast Guard, 1970s)
- Fred Kendall (1973–1975)
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