Francis House

Francis House is a New Jersey historical marker in Ocean County, dedicated 1963.

In front of his home which is now the Riverview Hotel · location approximate

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Home of Joseph Francis, inventor of life car and other sea-rescue devices. The life car saved 200 when first used in 1850.

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Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1847 · New Jersey (H. S. Tanner, 1847) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1852 · Gay Head to Cape Henlopen (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1855 · Map of New Jersey (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · Ocean Co., N.J. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1888 · Barnegat, New Jersey (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

New Jersey (H. S. Tanner, 1847), 1847, covering the location of Francis House, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — New Jersey (H. S. Tanner, 1847), 1847, covering this location. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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Marker data: New Jersey Historical Commission

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