A Community in Transition, a Lighthouse & a Star

Today in New Jersey history:

June 11, 1855: Mary Paul, a Vermont native and resident at the utopian North American Phalanx community in Middletown, wrote her father as the community began to unravel “I don’t know how long I can stay here…Where I shall go and when I go away is more than I can guess.”

June 11, 1964: Sandy Hook Lighthouse was declared an official National Historic Landmark, on the 200th anniversary of the date it began operation. 

June 11, 1969: Actor Peter Dinklage, who stars as Tyrion Lannister in the television series Game of Thrones, a role for which he has received both Emmy and Golden Globe awards, was born in Morristown. Dinklage grew up in Mendham and graduated from Delbarton School and Bennington College.