To which old profession is this sculpture in Georgia dedicated?

My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It’s time to take the window to see Leerie going by; For every night at teatime and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street. (From "The Lamplighter" by Robert Louis Stevenson. A favourite childhood poem of mine)

I had no idea that this was a profession. long before my time on Earth.

there's gas lights in Charleston SC

daisy jane, lamp lighters street cleaners.

That Cøunt, Ray Bumpkin raises his hat up high

That Cøunt, Ray Bumpkin, r

Back in that era lamps were oil based no electric status Kerosene was crucial we only had candles or oil lamps

I never heard of this...Thanks for the knowledge.