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In 1951 Dominic Turillo was transfered from the Rose Island Light to the Beavertail Light Station to take up the position of assistant keeper under Keeper Edward A. Donahue. In 1953 Turillo was promoted to Keeper, a post from which he retired in 1966.

As stated in an article form "The Echo" in August of 1989:

"It (Beavertail) was where he raised his 11 children, where he saw unlucky craft hit the jagged cliffs of this most wonderful piece of Rhode Island coastline, where he painted white the top half of the massive granite lighthouse, and where he watched the changes take place, the kind that would make people like himself, keepers of lighthouses, not only an endangered species, but an obsolete one."