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East Point (formerly Maurice River)
State: NJ
Year established: 1849
Latitude: 39 deg 11
min 45 sec N
Longitude: 75 deg 1
min 41 sec W
Height above sea level: 43 feet Original construction:
40-foot octagonal tower on square dwelling Rebuilds:
 1970s: restoration of burnt lighthouse
Status:
automated in 1911; decommissioned 1941 - 1980; severely damaged by fire in 1971; re-lit in 1980; active aid to navigation
Light characteristic:
alternating 3 seconds white and 3 seconds dark visible for 9 nautical miles, red sector
Notes:
post card image is printed in reverse (left-to-right flip) - see the additional illustration; the second lighthouse built in New Jersey; name changed to East Point in 1913; acquired by State of NJ, managed by Maurice River Historical Association; first phase exterior restoration completed in 1999
More information:
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBLIGHTHOUSES/LHNJ.html
http://njlhs.burlco.org/eastpoint.htm
http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/light/eastpt.htm
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. 74-75
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