Another casualty of Sandy was identified in late May. As a result of the violent tides carrying3 or4 feet of waste water, the foundation of a house that dates to 1904 or earlier was deemed too seriously damaged to repair and elevate.
The house stands at 223 Second St. in Beach Haven. It is a simple house, probably built in Tuckerton in the 1880s as a gun shop. Originally it had two rooms. It has long been thought that in1904 it was floated across the bay to Beach Haven and then up Dock Creek, which is still called Dock Road, then across Main Street to its site on Second Street.
Sam Shourds bought the house and the property from Archibald Pharo in 1905 for the sum of $1.
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