📜Historical Events1850s
Did you know this about Barnegat Light?
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Lieutenant George Meade designed the Barnegat Lighthouse in 1857. Six years later, he would lead Union forces to victory at Gettysburg.
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German U-boats sank over 100 ships off the Jersey Shore during WWII. Debris from the SS Morro Castle, torpedoed near Long Beach Island, still lies on the ocean floor.
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Henry Phipps, who planned to develop Island Beach, was Andrew Carnegie's business partner in U.S. Steel. His estate hunting lodge still stands in the park as the Aeolium nature center.
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During WWII, the U.S. Army used Island Beach as a rocket testing facility, firing experimental anti-aircraft missiles over the Atlantic Ocean from 1942-1945.
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