Not New to Pandemics: The Spanish Flu Visited Tuckerton in 1918

This is not the first pandemic to hit the Little Egg Harbor/Tuckerton area. In the fall of 1918, the so called “Spanish Flu” arrived in Southern Ocean County, with Tuckerton, a bustling small town, as the epicenter.

One of the reasons is the U.S. Marines had taken over the Tuckerton Wireless as a precaution during World War I, and it is generally accepted that soldiers who contracted the disease in training camps, such as Camp Dix in Pemberton, helped spread the disease.