Navesink Twin Lights, Highlands New Jersey

Twin Lights Lighthouse

Highlands, New Jersey

From The Top of The North Tower

Twin Lights 

Twin Lights

The Keeper

Chuck Gullage

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    The Navesink Twin Lights is located in Highlands, New Jersey overlooking Sandy Hook Bay, the entrance to the New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean. The Twin Lights, as the name implies, are a pair of beacons located 246 feet (75 m) above sea level on the Navesink Formation.
    A lighthouse existed on the site since 1828, when it became an important guide and landmark for ships navigating the treacherous entrances to New York Harbor.
    The current lighthouse was constructed in 1862. The non-identical towers by day and the two beacons by night—one flashing and one fixed—allowed ready identification by mariners of the identity of the facility, thus allowing a rough determination of their location approaching the harbor. This was the first American lighthouse to test a Fresnel lens and was also the site of a demonstration by Marconi of the wireless telegraph in 1899.
    The north tower light was discontinued in 1898; at the same time the south tower was electrified, one of the first lighthouses in the United States to be so equipped. It was automated in 1949, but was discontinued in 1952 as the importance of the light diminished.
    In 1962, the site was turned over to the state of New Jersey, which installed a sixth order lens and reactivated the north tower as a private aid to navigation. This light remains active.

The above text "borrowed" from Wikipedia
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The following images are provided courtesy of
"The Keeper" Chuck Gullage


Chuck and un-named Co-Worker
Installing a New, Sixth Order
Fresnal Lens in the North Tower





Days of Former Glory return
This photo shows the Twin Lights with both towers lit for
the first time since 1898. In the photo the South Tower
is quite a bit brighter than the North Tower.
That is to replicate the configuration back then;
In 1898 the South Tower had a First Order
Fresnel Lens and the North Tower
had a Fifth Order Fresnel Lens.



The New, Sixth Order Fresnel Lens


Thanks Chuck !!