There are countless tales of shipwrecks on the Jersey Shore, but the wreck of the ship Georgia, at the southern end of LBI, has generally slipped through the cracks of history. The story involves one of the 19th century’s most famous local hotel proprietors, Thomas Bond, and took place at a time when the lifesaving service consisted of a few huts along the Jersey Shore that contained apparatus to be used by volunteers to rescue those in peril.

In 1890, Lippincott’s Magazine ran an article on Bond’s fame as an innkeeper.