# Tatham Life Saving Station 2026-09-07 · Tatham Life Saving Station · Stone Harbor, New Jersey · Event Stone Harbor's oldest building preserves lifesaving and veterans history in one former lookout station — keep island shopping outside the required window. Stone Harbor's oldest building preserves lifesaving and veterans history in one former lookout station — keep island shopping outside the required window. --- Tatham is the oldest building in Stone Harbor and now serves a double historical purpose. The former 1895 lifesaving station is preserved by American Legion Post 331, with material on the U.S. Life-Saving Service alongside military and veterans history. The Stone Harbor Museum notes surviving lifesaving artifacts including a surfboat, steering oars, historic photographs and interpretive panels. Murals trace the rescue work and military service. The station's lookout tower gives the building its original logic back: the point was to see trouble before everyone else did. This is also one of the Challenge stops where the transition from Life-Saving Service to the later Coast Guard story is easy to understand physically. Project-management note Stone Harbor sits on another barrier island. The challenge route comes in from the Garden State Parkway, reaches the station, then turns south toward Cape May. Keep local shopping and beach wandering outside the required window unless the day is clearly ahead. Worth noticing nearby The Wetlands Institute sits on Stone Harbor Boulevard near the access route and would ordinarily be an ideal companion attraction. In 2026, however, its main marsh campus is closed in October for a major transition project, so do not build a Challenge detour around it. Stop facts Stop11TypeLifesaving stationAddress117th Street & Second Avenue, Stone HarborTownStone HarborFirst lit / builtBuilt 1895ClimbLookout tower when accessible2026 night climbNoDefault dwell20–25 min SOURCE NOTES • Stone Harbor Museum — Tatham Station --- ProbleMattic is written and maintained by Matthew Kulcsar, a software engineer, project manager, technologist, platform builder, emergency-services-trained helper, grandfather, and lifelong collector of broken systems, odd behaviors, and useful nonsense.