Twin Lights in the Atlantic Highlands at the Jersey Shore, Monmouth, County
This current browntone structure was built in 1862 and has served as the primary seacoast light marker at the entrance to New York Harbor. The towers are not identical twins, the south tower is square and the north is octagonal. The 1862 structure replace an earlier twin tower lighthouse. In 1899 the first wireless (radio) messages to be sent and received in the U.S. were exchanged between operators aboard the S.S. Ponce and the Twin Lights.
Twin Lights in the Atlantic Highlands at the Jersey Shore, Monmouth, County
This current browntone structure was built in 1862 and has served as the primary seacoast light marker at the entrance to New York Harbor. The towers are not identical twins, the south tower is square and the north is octagonal. The 1862 structure replace an earlier twin tower lighthouse. In 1899 the first wireless (radio) messages to be sent and received in the U.S. were exchanged between operators aboard the S.S. Ponce and the Twin Lights.