Navesink Light
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| Navesink Light Station | |
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| (U.S. National Historic Landmark) | |
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| Location: | Highlands, New Jersey |
| Built/Founded: | 1862 |
| Architect: | Joseph Lederle |
| Added to NRHP: | February 17, 2006 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 06000237 |
| Governing body: | State |
The Navesink Light Station, also known as the Twin Lights of Navesink, is located in the town of Highlands, New Jersey. It's distinctive two non-uniform towers helped guide ships into New York Harbor until 1949. The current building, built in 1862, replaced an earlier lighthouse that had been built in 1828[2]
This was the first American lighthouse to test a Fresnel lens and was also the site of a demonstration by Marconi of the wireless telegraph in 1899.[3] A bi-valve fresnel lens is on display in the museum.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
- ^ Twin Lights History
- ^ Twin Lights NHL Dedication
- ^ Ricks Lighthouses
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Navesink Lighthouse and Robbins Reef Lighthouse: Lighting the Way Through New York Bay, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan
- Navesink Light is at coordinates Coordinates:
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