1919 had not been a good year for Barnegat Lighthouse or Barnegat City. Winter gales and an August hurricane had washed away houses and endangered the lighthouse, along with the 20-room keeper’s house at its base. An 1869 map shows an entire street named Myrtle Avenue west of the lighthouse, which is where the channel is located today.
In November 1919, Popular Mechanics magazine explained the situation.
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