A Guiding Light

A Guiding Light (HM1AJE)

Location: Maurice River, NJ 08349 Cumberland County
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Country: United States of America
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N 39° 11.758', W 75° 1.655'

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— Maritime History —

The East Point Lighthouse guards the eastern shore of the Maurice River Cove. This lone sentinel once provided hundreds of Delaware Bay oyster schooners with a guiding light to the ports at Port Norris and Port Elizabeth.

Constructed in 1849, it is the second oldest lighthouse still standing in New Jersey - only the Sandy Hook lighthouse on the North Jersey shore is older.

After nearly a century of service for commercial oyster fishing operations, East Point was deactivated in 1941. Local pressure convinced the Coast Guard to reactivate it in 1980, making it the only functioning "onshore" lighthouse on the Delaware Bay.

The "Cape Cod" design used at East Point also influenced eight of the first nine lighthouses built on America's west coast in the late 1800s.
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HM NumberHM1AJE
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Placed ByNational Park Service & the State of New Jersey
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Date Added Sunday, September 28th, 2014 at 8:26am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18S E 497618 N 4338523
Decimal Degrees39.19596667, -75.02758333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 39° 11.758', W 75° 1.655'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds39° 11' 45.48" N, 75° 1' 39.30" W
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Area Code(s)856
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 10 Lighthouse Rd, Maurice River NJ 08349, US
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