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Hereford Inlet
State: NJ
Year established: 1874
Latitude: 39 deg 0
min 24 sec N
Longitude: 74 deg 47
min 30 sec W
Height above sea level: 57 feet Original construction:
current 50-foot square wooden tower atop a dwelling Rebuilds:
 1913: tower moved 150 feet westward after a storm damaged the foundation
1964: automated light tower replaced the lighthouse
1977: restoration of lighthouse begun by City of N. Wildwood
Status:
automatic beacon relit in lighthouse in 1986, active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
flashing white every 10 seconds, visible for 24 nautical miles
Notes:
lighthouse damaged by fire in 1938, property transferred to NJ in 1963
More information:
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHNJ.html
http://www.njlhs.burlco.org/hereford.htm
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/hereford.htm
Bachand, Robert G.,Northeast Lights - Lighthouses and Lightships - Rhode Island to Cape May, NJ, (Norwalk, CT: Sea Sports Publications, 1989), pp. 373-375
Office of the Light House Board, List of Lights and Fog Signals on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States, (Washington, DC: GPO, 1895), pp. 70-71
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