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The Cape May Historic District is an area of 380 acres (1.5 km 2) with over 600 buildings in the resort town of Cape May, Cape May County, New Jersey.The city claims to be America's first seaside resort and has numerous buildings in the Late Victorian style, including the Eclectic, Stick, and Shingle styles, as well as the later Bungalow style, many with gingerbread trim.
In 1850, Arizona and New Mexico formed the New Mexico Territory. In 1853, President Franklin Pierce sent James Gadsden to Mexico City to negotiate with Santa Anna, and the United States bought the remaining southern strip area of Arizona and New Mexico in the Gadsden Purchase. A treaty was signed in Mexico in December 1853, and then, with ...
Hinchcliffe Court opens near Tucson, the first auto court motel in Arizona. [116] 1912 February 14: Arizona becomes the 48th state of the United States; Phoenix becomes the state capital. [108] U.S. President William Howard Taft issues Proclamation 1180: Admitting Arizona to the Union. [117] The Territory of Arizona becomes the State of Arizona.
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Sea Isle City is a city in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.The city, and all of Cape May County, is part of the South Jersey region of the state and of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, and is part of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD combined statistical area, also known as the Delaware Valley or Philadelphia metropolitan area. [19]
Territory of Arizona, 1863–1912 [1] North-western corner of the Arizona Territory is transferred to the State of Nevada, 1867; State of Arizona since February 14, 1912; Mexican Boundary Exchanges: In 1927 under the Banco Convention of 1905, the U.S. acquired two bancos from Mexico at the Colorado River border with Arizona.
Ocean City is a city in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.It is the principal city of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Cape May County, and is part of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD combined statistical area, also known as the Delaware Valley or Philadelphia metropolitan area. [21]
January 6, 1912 New Mexico Territory was admitted as the forty-seventh state, New Mexico. [208] [357] February 14, 1912 Arizona Territory was admitted as the forty-eighth state, Arizona. [259] [358] August 24, 1912 The District of Alaska was reorganized as the Alaska Territory. [359] Northwestern North America: January 31, 1913