Jersey Shore Magazine

j e r s e y s h o r e • F A L L / H O L I D A Y 2 0 2 1 73 Coast Guard Station Barnegat Light Station #113 (USLSS Station #17) 3/8 miles south of Barnegat Light/ Barnegat Date of Conveyance/Year Built: 1855/1872 First built upon land that the U.S. Government did not have title. Still in operation. Coast Guard Station Bay Head Station #106 (USLSS Station #10) At the head of Barnegat Bay/Bay Head Date of Conveyance/Year Built: 1884/1856 Station was originally named Point Pleasant until changed by the Treasury Department on June 1, 1883. Abandoned in 1946. Coast Guard Station Bonds Station #118 (USLSS Station #22) South end of Long Beach/ Beach Haven Date of Conveyance/Year Built: 1855/1849 In 1896, it became necessary to move build- ings from this site due to the encroachment of the sea. Keeper records show an acting keeper appointed in 1915 but no entries were made after that date. Fate unknown. Coast Guard Station Cedar Creek Station #111 At Island Beach State Park, 5 3/8 miles north of the Barnegat Inlet Date of Conveyance/Year Built: unknown/1872 Keeper records date back to 1856 for this location, which was deactivated in 1938. After WWII, The Good Earth author Pearl S. Buck and her adopted children used the building as a summer home. Demolished in 1975. Coast Guard Stations in Monmouth and Ocean Counties Through the Years Coast Guard Station Chadwick's Station #108 Chadwick Beach Island Date of Conveyance/Year Built: 1883/1849 The original station burned down on April 26, 1923. A new station was built to replace it. Abandoned by 1939. Coast Guard Station Deal Station #102 (USLSS Station #6) On Deal Lake/Deal Date of Conveyance/Year Built: 1849/1849 One of the original stations built in 1849. Rebuilt on a new site in 1881, which identi- fied it as "Asbury Park, New Jersey." Station was repaired and improved in 1889. Became inactive in 1938. Station personnel rescued sixty-one people from the Pliny, which sank on May 13, 1882; forty-eight people from the Wyndermere on March 18, 1892; saved seven of eleven lives when the Mary F. Reilly sank on August 24, 1893. Abandoned in 1946. Coast Guard Station Forked River Station #112 (USLSS Station #15) At Island Beach State Park, 2 1/2 miles north of Barnegat Light/Forked River Date of Conveyance/Year Built: 1900/1855 Station occupied a site on Island Beach for which no conveyance was ever obtained for many years. Closed in 1947 and abandoned in 1948, today the historic station's buildings serve as the park's Nature and Interpretive Centers. Coast Guard Station Harvey Cedar Station #115 (USLSS Station #19) 5 1/2 miles south of Barnegat Inlet/Harvey Cedars Date of Conveyance/Year Built: 1885/1849 Abandoned in 1950. Coast Guard Station Island Beach Station #110 (USLSS Station #14) At Island Beach State Park, 8 miles north of Barnegat Light Date of Conveyance/Year Built: 1849/1849 Abandoned in 1946, today the historic sta- tion is used as the park's maintenance build- ing and is located near the park's entrance. Coast Guard Station Little Egg Station #119 (USLSS Station #23) 2 miles northwest from Little Egg Inlet/ Little Egg Harbor Date of Conveyance/Year Built: 1876/1856 Turned over to the General Services Administration in 1964. Coast Guard Station Long Beach Station #117 (USLSS Station #21) 12 miles south southwest of Barnegat Light/Long Beach Date of Conveyance/Year Built: 1900/1849 Abandoned in 1946. Coast Guard Station Long Branch (also known as Greens Pond Station) Station #101 (USLSS Station #5) 3 miles north of entrance to Deal Lake/ Long Branch Year of Conveyance/Year Built: 1878/1849 Station built at a position given as "Greens Pond." Turned over to the General Services Administration in 1954. Coast Guard Station Loveladies Station #114 (USLSS Station #18) 2 1/4 miles south of Barnegat Light/ Loveladies Year of Conveyance/Year Built: 1872/1871 Discontinued in 1922. Coast Guard Station Manasquan Inlet Station #105 South side of Manasquan Inlet/Point Pleasant Beach Year of Conveyance/Year Built: 1936/1936, 2017 This station replaced the Manasquan, Bay Head, Mantoloking, Chadwick Beach, and Toms River Stations because of its ocean access and protected mooring facilities. A boathouse was added in 1939 and enlisted quarters in 1976. Both buildings were razed in 2015. A new, state-of-the-art building was completed and commissioned in 2017. Still in operation. Coast Guard Station Mantoloking (Formerly named Station Swan Point until June 1, 1883) Station #107 (USLSS Station #11) Near north end of Island Beach/Mantoloking Year of Conveyance/Year Built: 1879/1872 Crew awarded gold life-saving medals "in honor of conduct seldom equaled and never surpassed in the history of the life-saving effort" for their actions at the wreck of the schooner George Taulane on February 3, 1880. Five lives were saved. Listed as inactive in 1938. Turned over to the General Services Administration in 1953. USLSS = United States Life-Saving Service continued on page 74 Postcard of the Loveladies Gift Shop, formerly Coast Guard Station Loveladies. 73 j e r s e y s h o r e • F A L L / H O L I D A Y 2 0 2 1

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