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Gillian's Wonderland Pier was a historic amusement park in Ocean City, New Jersey. It was founded in 1965 by Roy Gillian, son of David Gillian who first came to Ocean City in 1914. [ 2 ] It was located near the beginning of the commercial boardwalk on 6th street.
The park is located in Cape May County, just south of Ocean City, adjacent to Corson's Inlet. [1] Included in the park is Strathmere Natural Area, located north of Strathmere . The park consists of 341-acre (1.38 km 2 ) of undeveloped and undisturbed sand dunes that serves as a protected nesting site for the endangered piping plover , the least ...
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]
USA Today readers picked the top 10 NJ beaches. Discover the Jersey Shore's best, from family-friendly Ocean City to vibrant Asbury Park.
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.
Hunt's Pier dates back to the early 1900s when it was known as Ocean Pier, the first major pier on the boardwalk. Home to ballroom dancing and musical acts, Ocean Pier was purchased by William Hunt in 1935 and converted to an amusement park with rides, including a Ferris wheel, a roller coaster, and a dark ride.
Hunt's Pier went defunct in 1990 and became Conko's Party Pier in 1991, Ocean Pier in 1993–1994, and was leased by the Catanosos in 1995 and called Atlantic Pier with kiddie rides on the front and the rest of the pier closed off with a white wall, and 1996–1998 Dinosaur Beach with the Golden Nugget Mine Rescue, Long Neck River Log Flume ...