I was looking at the New Jersey Maritime Museum’s site and came across a link to Shipwrecks along the New Jersey Coast.

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Morrison’s Restaurant was a classic LBI restaurant. It had been serving great seafood since the 1940’s. It’s position adjacent to the intercoastal waterway and large windows provided a parade of boats for diners. The volume of boats dropped off significantly as time progressed. In the earlier days, you would see a continuous procession of  everything from well worn garveys to expensive sport fishermen while you enjoyed great seafood.

Photos of the schooner, Lucy Evelyn,  right after she was beached in Beach Haven and converted to a gift shop.

The Lucy Evelyn was a three masted schooner built in 1917 in Harrington Maine and homeported in Machias Maine.  She served for a number of years including the packet trade to South America. At one point in World War II, she was shelled by a German U-Boat and survived.

There is a solitary house on a small private island off Center Street in Beach Haven. 

A storm caused some moderate tidal flooding on LBI. These are some pictures from North Beach Haven

This is an aerial view of Barnegat Light and the Barnegat Inlet from a 1920’s survey by the Army Corps of Engineers. 

The fish factory processed Bunker. It was very active in the 1970’s. At some point after that, it ceased operations.