LONGPORT – Everything old is new again at the Longport Historical Society. Members are getting ready to erect a new weather vane atop the stately white clapboard building, which was built in 1938 by the U.S. Coast Guard and now houses the historical society’s museum. The weather vane is an exact replica of the one that blew off in the Storm of 1962and mysteriously disappeared, “perhaps for its metal value” Board Member John Stroble said.
The building, which was once served as Borough Hall, was one of several along the Atlantic coast built during the Roosevelt administration to serve as a Coast Guard station. It housed Coasties until after World War II when the Coast Guard consolidated its operations. It sold the building to the borough for $1 in 1951, Stroble said.
