Hereford Inlet Lighthouse, North Wildwood, New Jersey

Hereford Inlet is a small waterway between barrier islands on the southern New Jersey coast leading to a safe harbor for ships. Due to shipwrecks which occured from the shifting sandbars, the United States Lifesaving Service established a station on the nothern end of Five Mile Beach Island in the town of Anglesea in 1849. Years later the US Lighthouse Board recognized the importance of the inlet proposing a new lighthouse station be built. Congress approrpiated $25,000 for this purpose in June 1872.

A pen and ink rendering of the Hereford Inlet Lighthouse drawn by Ed Hewitt. Ed was the nephew of Keeper Freeling Hewitt and served as a volunteer at the lighthouse. In the late 80's Ed & I sat on the back porch of the light sharing a coke on a hot summer day while he told me family stories about the lighthouse.

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A pen and ink rendering of the Hereford Inlet Lighthouse drawn by Ed Hewitt. Ed was the nephew of Keeper Freeling Hewitt and served as a volunteer at the lighthouse. In the late 80's Ed & I sat on the back porch of the light sharing a coke on a hot summer day while he told me family stories about the lighthouse.

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Hereford Inlet Lighthouse, North Wildwood, New Jersey