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The 1764 Sandy Hook Lighthouse at night — an octagonal rubble-stone tower with a lit whale-oil lamp, silhouetted against a moonlit sea, colorized
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The 1764 tower at night

ca. 1764

Sandy Hook Lighthouse, north end of the peninsula

The Sandy Hook Lighthouse — completed June 11, 1764, still standing, still operating. An eighty-five-foot octagonal rubble-stone tower, unaltered in outline for two hundred and sixty years. The oldest operating lighthouse in the United States.

Item record

Title
The 1764 tower at night
Date
ca. 1764
Source
Placeholder illustration for Phase 0 — replace with archival night photograph before publishing.
Contributor
ATH placeholder
Rights
Placeholder — replace before publishing
Slug
light-and-war-hero

Verification: placeholder item — metadata and image will be replaced with archival material before publication.

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The 1764 tower at night (ca. 1764). Placeholder illustration for Phase 0 — replace with archival night photograph before publishing. The Highlands History Project, https://history.abovethehook.com/archive/light-and-war-hero/.