At the Barnegat Lighthouse Visitor Center on Saturday, March 15 at 1 p.m., attend a lecture about lighthouse keeper Ellen S. Low. The talk will also cover 1830s LBI, other women keepers, Low’s gown and fashion history.
IF THE DRESS FITS: Learn about light keeper Ellen Low’s important role in history. (Supplied Photos)
The Ellen S. Low Gown, designed and researched by Liz Daukas Oliner, honors 19th-century New Jersey’s only woman principal lighthouse keeper. See the dress, which accurately represents the fashion of a working woman during that time, on display at the visitor center.
Low helped serve Long Beach Island at Barnegat Light from 1835 to 1839, saved countless lives in difficult conditions, was involved in the fearless rescue of a captain and his crew on a smallpox-ridden, shipwrecked pest ship, and held the…
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