Sandy Hook People

Sandy Hook People

Who was the "Hancock" in Fort Hancock? Why do gun batteries have names like Gunnison? Who helped keep the lights going at the Sandy Hook Lighthouse for more than a century? Find out all of this and more.

 

Sandy Hook people

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  Winfield Scott Hancock

  Winfield Scott Hancock, "Hancock the Superb"

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  John Williams Gunnison

  Battery Gunnison is named after John Williams Gunnision, an explorer and soldier.

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  Cornelius Titus aka Colonel Tye

  Renegade, Runaway Slave, Traitor, Guerilla Leader. All these titles easily describe Cornelius Titus

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  Tom Mix, Movie Star in Silent Westerns

  Tom Mix: Movie star in silent Westerns

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  Sandy Hook Lighthouse Keepers

  The Sandy Hook Lighthouse was maintained by a full-time keeper for more than a century.

 

The Sandy Hook Oral History Program consists of more than 100 interviews with people who either lived or worked at Sandy Hook. Most were soldiers and dependents of the U.S. Army, but many others worked here too. Interviews were conducted by park staff and Monmouth University student interns over several years.