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Hereford Inlet Light Station, 154 Central Avenue, North Wildwood, Cape May County, NJ

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Hereford Inlet Light Station, 154 Central Avenue, North Wildwood, Cape May County, NJ

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Summary

Significance: In 1871 a proposal was made by the U.S. Lighthouse Board to build a "small light, say a fourth order" about 11 miles north of the Cape May Light. The Hereford Station was completed in 1874. The station was the major building of a group that included a boathouse, oil house, barn, privy, storehouse, and a lifesaving station #36, all of the outbuildings around the lighthouse are now gone...
Survey number: HABS NJ-1238
Building/structure dates: 1874 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1913 Subsequent Work

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Date

1933 - 1970
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Morrison, Craig, field team
Myers, Hyman, project manager
Francis G. Vitetta Associates, sponsor
United Architects, sponsor
McCauley, Hugh j, transmitter
Price, Virginia B, transmitter
Garrison, James, delineator
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cape may county39.00721, -74.79188
Google Map of 39.0072144, -74.7918767
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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