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Tinicum 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. A visitor at the Tinicum Lighthouse put together an exterior tour of the light tower.
I visited the Tinicum Lighthouse during the 2019 20th Anniversary Challenge. It was the first stop on my list, and I arrived right at dawn. I climbed the stairs to the top to watch the sun rise over Philadelphia.
Tinicum is in Paulsboro, NJ and is one of a pair of lights marking a section of the Delaware River. It is still an active navigational aid. By aligning the front and rear range lights and aiming for the center, ship avoid Little Tinicum Island as the travel up the Delaware.
The light was first activated on December 31, 1880 and had keeper’s quarters. The Coast Guard automated the signal in 1933. The Keeper’s homes were demolished in the 1950s, leaving just the steel frame towers.
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: 70 Second Street, Paulsboro, NJ 08066, USA
Designation: National Register of Historic Places
Date designated or established: September 15, 2005
Date of my visit: October 19, 2019
So interesting how I seem to have an antiquated idea of what a lighthouse looks like. I always think tall column, usually white with some red.
These skeleton ones are different than what I expected too.