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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEYJ_the-old-north-tower_Highlands-NJ.html
The Navesink Highlands Light Station originally consisted of two octagonal stone towers 320 feet apart. You are standing directly on the site of the 1828 north tower. Its replacement, completed in 1862, is behind you.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEYI_spermaceti-cove-lifeboat-station_Highlands-NJ.html
In 1848, eight lifeboat stations were built along the New Jersey coast between Sandy Hook and Little Egg Harbor. You are looking at the only surviving structure of the original eight. It was moved here from its Sandy Hook location in 1954 to be pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEYE_marconi-at-twin-lights_Highlands-NJ.html
Messages from the first practical demonstration of wireless telegraph were sent from this site on September 30, 1899 by famous Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi.
Marconi had been invited to America by Gordon Bennett Jr., the owner of the New Y…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEYD_telegraph-and-radar-at-twin-lights_Highlands-NJ.html
This was a significant site for more than just the lighthouse. In this strategic location, Marconi demonstrated wireless telegraph, the US Navy established a wireless station and the US Army tested various radar units.
The Navy's Bureau of Equi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEYC_spermaceti-cove-station-no-2_Highlands-NJ.html
Sandbars, shallow waters, and winter storms off the New Jersey Shore were a constant danger to early sailing vessels. In a storm, wind and waves could destroy a helpless grounded ship, its cargo, and crew and passengers.
Commerce in and out of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEY7_british-campsite_Atlantic-Highlands-NJ.html
For a week following the Battle of Monmouth, the main British army under Gen. Sir Henry Clinton spread its encampment both sides of this road while awaiting transport from Sandy Hook. They embarked for New York July 5, 1778.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEY6_middletown-township-locust-historic-district_Rumson-NJ.html
Settled circa 1715 by David Burdge of Hempstead, L.I. Significant as an early farming and fishing village, and center of local oyster trade to New York in the 19th c. Steamboats brought visitors as Locust evolved into an important estate area in t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEXR_keeping-the-light_Highlands-NJ.html
For more than a century, Sandy Hook Lighthouse keepers lived in isolation at the end of this windswept peninsula. In the 1890s, the U.S. Army began building massive concrete gun batteries here to defend the entrance to New York harbor. Fort Hancoc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEXO_the-navesink-highlands-light-station_Highlands-NJ.html
At almost 200 feet above sea level, the Navesink Highlands Light Station, also known as Twin Lights, is positioned on one of the highest points on the Atlantic coast. Lighthouses on this site have guided mariners safely into New York Harbor since …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEXL_navesink-light-station_Highlands-NJ.html
has been designated aNational Historic Landmark
This site possesses national significancein commemorating the history of theUnited States of America.
From 1828 until 1949 the Twin Towers of Navesink served as a principal aid to navigation fo…