This is the second in a series.

Walking around Barnegat Lighthouse today cannot give you a picture of what it was like 100 years ago. If you walk around the base of the lighthouse, you realize how close Barnegat Inlet has eroded the shore, but if you stand with your back to the door, everything on the north end of Long Beach Island is different.

At the beginning of the 20th century if you were standing there, you would see a large Victorian keeper’s house, the home of the three families needed to maintain the light.