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Sandy Hook’s 250th Anniversary Party

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New Jersey’s historic Sandy Hook Lighthouse recently celebrated its 250th birthday with a big party. The patriotic party featured costumed living history exhibits, a fife and drum group, lighthouse tours, a birthday cake, musket drills, Colonial-era children’s games, Colonial marching music, cannon fire, and lighthouse history presentations.

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The Fifes & Drums of the Old Barracks, Trenton, ...
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Lighthouse tours included close-up views of the ...
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This story appeared in the Sep/Oct 2014 edition of Lighthouse Digest Magazine. The print edition contains more stories than our internet edition, and each story generally contains more photographs - often many more - in the print edition. For subscription information about the print edition, click here.

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