Touring New Jersey's Lighthouses

Explore 11 lighthouses, and their history, along the Jersey Shore.

New Jersey's coastal heritage is a proud one, with lighthouses playing a starring role. This book visits eleven lighthouses accessible to the public, exploring their history as proud community sentinels and guardians of sea traffic passing treacherous rocks and shoals. From the Sandy Hook lighthouse in the north — the nation's oldest beacon — to popular tourist destination Cape May Point on the southern tip of the state, y...