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Tucker’s Lighthouse Virtual Tour►
Every October the NJ Lighthouse Society runs the Lighthouse Challenge of New Jersey in order to raise funds for the state’s historic lighthouses and maritime sites. This year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the event was mostly virtual. Volunteers at the Tucker’s Lighthouse put together this virtual tour of the light and museum.
I visited the Tuckerton Seaport during the 2018 Challenge. Tuckerton Seaport is a working maritime village with some historic and some recreated buildings around a mile-long boardwalk on Tuckerton Creek.
The lighthouse is one of the recreated buildings because the original fell into the ocean in 1927 as the island on which it sat eroded away. Tucker’s Island was completely gone by 1952.
The reproduction in Tuckerton Seaport is modeled after the 1868 lighthouse on Tucker’s Island. Tucker’s Island was originally a part of Long Beach Island but the ocean cut an inlet through it in the 1800s, creating a separate small ocean resort island with hotels, homes, a coast guard station and a lighthouse. All of this washed away in the early 1900s as the island was reclaimed by the sea.
Lighthouse Challenge posts►
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse
- Navesink Twin Lights
- Absecon Lighthouse
- Tuckerton Seaport
- Barnegat Lighthouse
- Tinicum Light
- Finn’s Point
- East Point Light
- Cape May Point
- Sea Girt Lighthouse
Location: 120 West Main Street, Tuckerton, New Jersey 08087
Designation: Maritime Museum Village
Date designated or established: May 2000
Date of my visit: 10/20/2018
I always enjoy your lighthouse posts, Theresa. Probably because I love lighthouses. It makes me think I should hit the Oregon Coast for a lighthouse tour. I’ve visited all of them at one time or the other, but I always appreciate an excuse to wander. And doing them all at once would provide a fun focus. –Curt
Thanks Curt! That sounds like an awesome trip. Now that I’ve visited all the lights that participate in the NJ lighthouse challenge, I was considering getting a friend to do the MD challenge with me. Then Covid hit, so there weren’t any events this year.