Spermaceti Cove Station Site

Station closed between 1942 and 1944. In 1962 the US Army, which owned the property, leased the south portion of Sandy Hook to the State of New Jersey, who turned it into Sandy Hook State Park. In 1974 the National Park Service took over the state park area, which became the Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area. 1894 station house survives at this site and is the Spermaceti Cove Life-Saving Station, a museum. 1848 boathouse was moved from Sandy Hook during the mid-1950s by the Twin Lights Historical Society and placed behind the north tower of the Twin Lights where it is the Spermaceti Cove Lifesaving Station, a museum exhibit.