Tuckerton Historical Society President John Yates answered the question “What’s so great about Tuckerton?” in a program on May 18 to a crowd at the Giffordtown Schoolhouse Museum. He gave an overview of the town, whichwas settled in 1699 as Little Egg Harbor, starting with the first residents, the Lenni Lenape, who settled along Tuckerton Creek during the late woodland period and left shell mounds and artifacts behind as they migrated through the woodlands to their winter haunts.

At their peak there were 12,000 Lenapes living in New Jersey, but by the mid-1700s there werefewer than 200, said…