The volume of summer mail caused the post office to open a new facility in the same year. Over ten thousand postal cards were mailed from...

LOCAL HIGHLANDS HISTORIAN DISCOVERS 1888 HIGHLAND BEACH RESORT PAMPHLET! Courtesy of Walt Guenter Collection Walt Guenther, a member of...

A DAY AT THE BEACH! AMUSEMENTS The fortunes of Highlands and Highland Beach were intertwined in the early days. Highland Beach was a...

Breaking News! Royalty Visits! 1939 Another summer delivered excitement! News reports noted that fifty children from Highlands gathered...

It was January 1890, and David Caulkin was the lighthouse keeper at the Twin Lights, with Charles Thompson his assistant. There were only...

Thomas Leonard’s book, ‘From Indian Trail to Electric Rail” contains a number of stories about the Twin Lights, going back to what he...

In 1908, Highlands’ growing popularity was honored by a song dedicated to the Neptune Club with music written by the well-known composer...

There have been a lot of stories about William Sandlass and the famed Sandlass Beach resort of the Golden Age era in the news and on...

Was it a typical day for the lighthouse keeper at the Twin Lights? Hardly. It was the storm of the century. It was listed as the worst...

Historians adore context. Context pulls people and events off the printed page, offering in-the-moment perspective that helps us...

Twin Lights in 100 Artifacts #5: Oil Storage Box Twin Lights has been a testing site for many technological innovations over its time....

Twin Lights in 100 Artifacts #4: Oil Measure For the majority of the Navesink Lighthouse’s operations it was lit with fuel oils, from...

Twin Lights in 100 Artifacts: #3 As Captain Ottinger of the U.S. Revenue Marine set about outfitting the newly established rescue...

Twin Lights in 100 Artifacts: #2 New Jersey’s shore, today enjoyed by millions for its boardwalks and long sandy beaches had quite a...

Twin Lights in 100 Artifacts - #1 The 2nd order lens at Twin Lights is a well-traveled light, having been disassembled, moved, and...