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At the base of Barnegat Lighthouse there is a bust of its designer, Gen. George G. Meade. Few people realize there wouldn’t be a lighthouse or monument if not for the decision of one man, Gen. Lansing Beach.
Beach was born in Iowa in 1860 and graduated from West Point in 1882, joining the Army Corps of Engineers. Over the next 38 years he oversaw construction of dams, canals and river projects. He became the head of the Corps in 1920.
When the battle raged between the friends of the Barnegat Lighthouse and George Putnam, head of the Lighthouse Bureau,…
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