When the light was converted from oil to electricity, only two keepers were needed so the east dwelling and barn was sold and moved to the Hillsboro Club property. It is NE of the Radio/Office building on the other side of the chain-link fence. The buildings were turned into suites for the Club's guests.

The most famous of these Mailmen was Ed Hamilton who disappeared at the Inlet with only his clothes and mailbag left behind, not a trace of him to be found!

This mail service ran from 1885 to 1892. Charles Pierce was a Barefoot Mailman and also posed for the 6 murals that are on display on the walls of the West Palm Beach Post Office.

The “Barefoot Mailman”stone statue (the original) now stands here where boaters may see this “honorable gentlemen”as they go in and out of Hillsboro Inlet. The Barefoot Mailman has its unique history. Several “story tellers”are here during HLPS tours to give their version handed down through their families. Frank & Steve Varga are the Barefoot Mailman's sculptors.

In periods of little horizontal drift of beach sand (primarily in summer and when winter waves from the northeast are small) a large hole is dredged inside the north jetty (built in 1966), out of the navigation channel. This is termed a “sand trap”. It serves to catch sand that would otherwise flow into the channel. If the sand trap is dredged out to 12 or 15 feet deep, most of the sand washed over the weir by a northeast storm will be trapped there and will not go into Hillsboro Inlet channel! Only when the sand trap is full, above sea level, will major amounts of sand enter the channel. In 2003 the channel was deepened to 18 to 20 feet.

From its beginning to the mid-1920's (when they were destroyed by a hurricane), there were a boat dock and boat-way shed for the keepers' 12 to 20 horse-power gas boats. In case of a shipwreck, the keepers put to sea in these boats to assist those in need. It was also to go to Deerfield to trade Sea-Grape jam for vegetables and other supplies.