From the March 15, 2015, Goldsboro (NC) News-Argus "From My Perch: Tidbits and pieces of local history" by Sherwood Owl Williford.
Mr. Williford took the information from the 1947 centennial edition of the paper commemorating the city's centennial celebration.
Mrs. J.W. Howell of 408 Daisy St. recalls that when she was seven years old, she remembered a lamplighter coming around on his rounds to light the town's street lights with his long torch.
The street lights burned all night long and in the morning he would have to come back and put them out.
This was about 1903, and she is not sure whether the lights were kerosene or gas lamps.
At the time, kerosene l;amps were used in Goldsboro.
--CooterLight
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