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LITTLE EGG HARBOR REAL ESTATE / TUCKERTON REAL ESTATE 
Little Egg Harbor Township is a Township in Ocean Couty, New Jersey. It was formed on February 13, 1740 as Egg Harbour Township from portions of Northamptom Township (now Mount Holly Township), while the area was still part of Burlington County. It was incorporated as one of
New Jersey 's original 104 townships by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798. Little Egg Harbor Township became part of Ocean County on March 30, 1891.
Mystic Island is an unincorporated area in the southern part of the township. The borough of Tuckerton is within the township but is politically independent. Little
Egg
Harbor and Tuckerton share the same ZIP code.
Egg
Harbor (known today as Little Egg Harbor) by the Dutch sailors because of the eggs found in nearby gull nests. The first known account of the town was made by Captain Cornelius Jacobsen May in 1614.
The first man to settle the township was Hanry Jacobs Falkinburg Sr. He arrived a little before 1698 and would trade with the local Native Americans, giving him farmland and plots of land known now asWills
Island and
Osborn
Island . Later, as Falkinburg could speak fluent Lenni Lenape, he acted as an interpreter between the Indians and settlers.
In October 1778, the Little Egg Harbor Massacre took place as Patrick Ferguson was wreaking havoc on Colonial shipping in the Mullica River. Kazimierz Pulaski nd his newly raised forces were ordered to oppose his actions. Pulaski's Legion, along with three companies of light infantry, three troops of light horse, and one artillery detachment, came too late to be of great use against
Ferguson 's operations. But their arrival did stop
Ferguson from raiding the iron works at Batsto, and stemmed their attacks on privateers at The Forks of the
Mullica
River .
They then set up camp on a farm. A deserter, Lt. Gustav Juliet, found
Ferguson and told him of Pulaski's encampment; he mentioned that morale was fairly low, and security almost nonexistent, so that a surprise attack would be devastating.
Ferguson promptly loaded 250 of his best men onto boats and rowed them, in the dark, some ten miles (16 km) to
Osborne
Island . He then marched them a further two miles (3 km) to the site of the infantry outpost, which comprised fifty men a short distance from the main encampment. At first light,
Ferguson ordered the attack; only five of his quarry were taken alive. Pulaski eventually led his mounted troops up, causing
Ferguson to retreat to his boats minus a few men that had fallen into the colonists' hands. A memorial on Radio Road commemorates the attack.
One of the first recorded ships of the township was a sloop belonging to Thomas Ridgway Sr. John Mathis Sr. also had a ship which his son, Daniel, sailed the West Indian routes. They made a profit from selling clams and oysters.
Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey History
Originally part of Burlington County, Little Egg Harbor took its name from the portion of a bay called
The first man to settle the township was Hanry Jacobs Falkinburg Sr. He arrived a little before 1698 and would trade with the local Native Americans, giving him farmland and plots of land known now as
In October 1778, the Little Egg Harbor Massacre took place as Patrick Ferguson was wreaking havoc on Colonial shipping in the Mullica River. Kazimierz Pulaski nd his newly raised forces were ordered to oppose his actions. Pulaski's Legion, along with three companies of light infantry, three troops of light horse, and one artillery detachment, came too late to be of great use against
They then set up camp on a farm. A deserter, Lt. Gustav Juliet, found
One of the first recorded ships of the township was a sloop belonging to Thomas Ridgway Sr. John Mathis Sr. also had a ship which his son, Daniel, sailed the West Indian routes. They made a profit from selling clams and oysters.
The Tuckerton Wireless Tower was built in 1912 by the German "Hochfrequenzmaschin Aktiengesellschaft Fuer Drahtlose Telegraphie" company (The High Frequency Machine Corporation for Wireless Telegraphy, often referred to as HOMAG) when the present-day Mystic Island was called Hickory Island. The tower was used to communicate with an identical radio telegraph station in Eilvese, Germany
starting on 19 Jun 1914, less than two weeks before the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. The station continued to communicate with Eilvese until
America entered World War I on April 6, 1917. It is rumored that it was used to send the message to order the attack by a German U-boat on the RMS Lusitania. After President Wilson's Declaration of Neutrality, the President ordered the US Navy to take over the station on September 9, 1914 to assure the neutrality of messages sent to and from the station; however, the station continued to be operated by German nationals employed by HOMAG and continued to communicate only with the Eilvese radio station. When
America entered the war, all
U.S. radio stations were seized and shut down by Executive Order. The Tuckerton Radio Station was assigned to the US Navy which used it primarily to back-up the communications of the US Navy's main transatlantic radio station in New Brunswick, NJ. The remaining German personnel at Tuckerton became war prisoners and were replaced by Navy personnel when the
U.S. entered the war. After the war, the Tuckerton Wireless Station was included in German war reparations paid to
America . Shortly afterwards, it was sold to RCA which operated it until 1948 as a backup to their Radio Central facility in Rocky Point, New York. In 1921, RCA installed two massive Alexanderson alternators, which were removed in 1948. For transatlantic communications, The radio station operated under the call signs WCI and WGG. For coastal communications, after World War I, the station operated under the callsign WSC. The 820-foot (250 m) steel tower, anchored by three large concrete blocks, was taken down on December 27, 1955. The three huge anchor blocks still exist today, in a backyard on North Ensign Drive and in the middle of South Ensign Drive and Storysail Drive. Many smaller anchor blocks providing foundations for smaller towers that supported the umbrella antenna are still visible in the lagoons. Remains of the large tower can be seen in scraps at the Giffordtown Museum.
Little Egg Harbor Real Estate Community Today
Little
Major developments in Little Egg Harbor Township include Tall Timbers (Townhomes, Radio Road and Center Street), Atlantis (Single Family Homes, Radio Road and Great Bay Boulevard, also home to Ocean County Golf Course at Atlantis), Holly Lake (Single Family Homes, Radio Road), Holly Lake Park (Single Family Homes and Condos, Oak Lane), Harbourtown Villas & Estates (Townhomes and Single Family Homes, Radio Road), Tavistock (Townhomes, Radio Road and Mathistown Road), Cross Creek (Single Family Homes, Center Street), and many more. Cranberry Creek also helped the extension of Otis Bog Road, from U.S. Route 9 to Center Street.
Mystic Island is a master-planned community built in the 1960's with lagoon-front homes. Most of the homes have either been expanded on or torn down then replaced with larger homes, usually set on pilings. The Tuckerton Wireless tower was located here.
Little Egg Harbor Real Estate Links:
The official website of Little Egg HarborSource: Wikipedia.com
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Beach Haven - 609-492-7277 · Forked River - 609-693-1055 · Little Egg Harbor - 609-296-2015 · Manahawkin - 609-597-6464
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