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The Twin Lights...A Perfect Place to Get Connected with
Culture and History
Did You Know?
The Twin Lights has played host to some fascinating and important events in the century and a half it has stood atop the Navesink Highlands. For many decades, it was the first glimpse of America for immigrants sailing across the Atlantic to start a new life. Today their descendants can climb the South Tower and trace the final stages of that amazing journey from the far horizon right into New York Harbor. If your ancestors first set foot in the U.S. at Ellis Island, you can relive that heart-pounding moment right here, right now. It’s fun. It’s free. And it’s good exercise, too.
Did you know that the Pledge of Allegiance was first given as the official national oath of loyalty here at the Twin Lights? Today, those words represent the threshold that all new citizens must cross before they can call themselves “Americans.” Talk about getting connected!
Indeed, a stroll around the Twin Lights site puts you on truly hallowed ground. Here Guglielmo Marconi conducted his groundbreaking wireless experiments in 1899. If you are reading this on a smart phone or with wireless Internet, then you are instantly connected to that day in October when commercial wireless technology made its debut.
Does your family tree include any World War II veterans? If so, they probably owe their lives in one way or another to the radar technology that was developed on this site in the 1930s. They called it a Mystery Ray back then!
Learn more about the cultural and scientific events
connected to the Twin Lights by clicking on the links on the left-hand side of
the page.
