Editing Sea Girt, New Jersey (section)

==Points of interest==
*[[Sea Girt Light]] began operation on December 10, 1896, and is located at Ocean Avenue and Beacon Boulevard. The lighthouse is one of only 20 lighthouses in the state of New Jersey that remain in existence.<ref>[http://www.seagirtboro.com/sglighthouse.html Sea Girt Lighthouse] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030813184004/http://www.seagirtboro.com/sglighthouse.html |date=August 13, 2003 }}, Borough of Sea Girt. Accessed June 2, 2007.</ref>
*The [[National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey]] maintains a museum in Sea Girt, which includes the ''[[Intelligent Whale]]'', an experimental hand-cranked submarine based on an 1863 design.<ref>DeMasters, Karen. [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/20/nyregion/up-front-on-the-map-a-civil-war-era-submarine-surfaces-in-sea-girt.html "Up Front: On The Map; A Civil War-Era Submarine Surfaces in Sea Girt"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 20, 1999. Accessed June 28, 2012. "A large black egg-shaped piece of cast iron about the size of a tiny apartment bathroom sits on a red steel cradle in a corner of the New Jersey National Guard Militia Museum in Sea Girt. The 46,000-pound vessel, called the Intelligent Whale, is a Civil War-era submarine and the latest acquisition of the military museum in the original armory at the National Guard Training Center."</ref>
*Both the [[New Jersey State Police]] and [[New Jersey Department of Corrections]] have their training facilities in Sea Girt. The New Jersey State Police Academy provides a program for recruits on a residential basis that provides training over a 24-week period.<ref>[http://www.njsp.org/recruit/academy.html New Jersey State Police Academy], [[New Jersey State Police]]. Accessed December 7, 2012. "The New Jersey State Police Academy is located in Sea Girt, New Jersey, and training consists of approximately 25 weeks."</ref> The facility was also a former New Jersey National Guard training base, and is still used as a training ground by the National Guard.