When NOAA announced last year it had identified the wreck of the Robert J. Walker, sunk in June 1860, south of Long Beach Island and the later designation of it as a national landmark, I decided to begin my own search into how it got there and its connection with the Jersey Shore. The story begins with Thomas Jefferson in 1807.
Following the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Jefferson pushed for more scientific research, and in that year he signed “An act to provide for surveying the coasts of the…
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