Most shipwreck stories end with the rescue of the last survivor or the disappearance of the ship beneath the waves. But the grounding of the three-masted ship Georgia on the southern end of LBI has one final chapter that helps to show the difference in life between pre-Civil War America and today.
The Toms River newspaper the Ocean Emblem of Dec. 10, 1852, summed up the event saying, “On Friday night last, the ship Georgia, from England, loaded with iron, cutlery and jewelry, and having on board…
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