Two wood engravings stacked on cream paper. Top: two masonry lighthouse towers — the taller left tower square and battlemented, the smaller right tower octagonal — connected by a low crenellated keeper's dwelling, with a few small figures walking a path in the foreground. Bottom: a rutted dirt road climbing a wooded ridge under a hazy sky, with two small figures and a horse-drawn cart on the road, a sliver of ocean at left and the twin lighthouses just visible on the ridge above at right. Captions read THE HIGHLAND LIGHTS and BEACON HILL, NEVERSINK HIGHLANDS.

The Highland Lights and Beacon Hill, Navesink Highlands

ca. 1875

Twin Lights of Navesink, Highlands, N.J.

A late-nineteenth-century wood engraving on a single sheet showing two paired views of the Navesink station. Top: The Highland Lights, the twin brownstone towers commissioned in 1862 to replace the 1828 pair — the north tower square with a battlemented parapet, the south tower octagonal, the two connected by a keeper's dwelling with crenellated walls. Bottom: Beacon Hill, Neversink Highlands, the road climbing the ridge with the twin towers just visible on the summit at right and the ocean opening to the left. From the era when the Navesink station was the most powerful primary seacoast light on the Atlantic seaboard.

The engraving and an AI-colorized reinterpretation

A colorized pair of engravings on cream paper. Top: the twin lighthouse towers of Navesink in warm brownstone with green foliage and blue-grey sky; a taller square-battlemented north tower connects to a smaller octagonal south tower via a fortified stone dwelling. Bottom: a wooded ridge in shades of green, a rutted dirt road climbing beneath, a sliver of blue-grey ocean at left, the twin towers on the ridge at right.

Item record

Title: The Highland Lights and Beacon Hill, Navesink Highlands
Date: ca. 1875
Source: Wood engraving after 1860s photographs · late 19th-century periodical illustration · scan from the New York Public Library
Contributor: The New York Public Library
Rights: Public domain (19th century)
Slug: highland-lights-engraving

Verification: unverified.

Cite this item

The Highland Lights and Beacon Hill, Navesink Highlands (ca. 1875). Wood engraving after 1860s photographs · late 19th-century periodical illustration · scan from the New York Public Library The Highlands History Project, https://history.abovethehook.com/archive/highland-lights-engraving/.