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Year first lit
  
1849

Deactivated
  
1941-1980

Construction
  
Brick

Opened
  
1849

Material
  
Brick

Year first constructed
  
1849

Automated
  
1911

Foundation
  
Stone

Height
  
12 m

Area
  
1 ha

Added to NRHP
  
25 August 1995

East Point Light

Location
  
Lighthouse Road, near the jct. of East Point Road, Maurice River Township, New Jersey

Address
  
10 Lighthouse Rd, Heislerville, NJ 08324, USA

Similar
  
Tinicum Island Rear Range Li, Hereford Inlet Light, Sea Girt Light, Cape May Lighthouse, Ship John Shoal Light

The East Point Light, known as the Maurice River Light before 1913, is a lighthouse located in Heislerville, New Jersey on Delaware Bay at the mouth of the Maurice River in Maurice River Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States. The light was inactive from 1941 and was nearly destroyed by fire in 1971. The light was reinstated by the United States Coast Guard in 1980. Exterior restoration was completed in 1999.

Listed in the National Register of Historic Places as Maurice River Lighthouse, reference #95001047.

East point lighthouse


References

East Point Light Wikipedia


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