Many people know Eugene Theodore "Cap" Knight as the founder of Cap's Place Island Restaurant. Fewer know of his younger brother, Thomas.

Thomas Knight came to this area in 1911 to become the second keeper at the Hillsboro Lighthouse. Previously he had served as assistant keeper of the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse and then keeper of the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse. He was 32, married and had four children when he arrived at the remote station on Hillsboro Inlet.

Thomas was the third generation of keeper in his family -- both his father, J. A. Knight, and grandfather, Mills O. Burnham, had been keepers of the lighthouse at Cape Canaveral.

He served at Hillsboro Lighthouse until 1920.