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A 1777 map depicting Cape May County, the scene of the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet on June 29, 1776, in the American Revolutionary War. Before Cape May County was settled by Europeans, the indigenous Kechemeche tribe of the Lenape people inhabited South Jersey, and traveled to the barrier islands during the summer to hunt and fish.
The Cape May Branch of the Cape May County Public Library is located in Cape May City. [146] The library was previously in city hall but later moved to a standalone building. In 2009 an estimated $507,800 renovation was to take place with $395,300, or about 78% of the expenses, paid by Cape May County. [ 147 ]
The Cape May County Courthouse is located at 9 North Main Street in Cape May Court House, the county seat of Cape May County, which itself is in Middle Township, New Jersey, United States. [ 1 ] It was designed by Edwards & Green of Camden and Philadelphia [ 2 ] and built in 1926–1927 by Bennett McLaughlin Company, also of Philadelphia.
Cape May County is governed by a five-person Board of County Commissioners whose members are elected at-large on a partisan basis to three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with either one or two seats coming up for election each year; At an annual reorganization held each January, the commissioners select one member to serve as director and another to serve as vice-director. [1]
Cape May County: 009: Cape May Court House: Lower Township 22,057: 1692: Burlington County: Cape May, named in turn for the 17th-century Dutch explorer Cornelius Jacobsen Mey, who explored and surveyed the Delaware Bay to the south of the county: 371.02 94,610: 255 sq mi (660 km 2) Cumberland County: 011: Bridgeton: Vineland 60,780: 1748: Salem ...
One of Avalon's beaches on the New Jersey shore. Avalon is a borough in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.It is located on Seven Mile Island.As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 1,243, [11] a decrease of 91 (−6.8%) from the 2010 census count of 1,334, [20] [21] which in turn declined by 809 (−37.8%) from the 2,143 counted in the 2000 census. [22]
Lower Township is a township in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.The township, and all of Cape May County, is part 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]
U.S. Life-Saving Station No. 35. Stone Harbor is a borough in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.The borough, and all of Cape May County, is part of the South Jersey region of the state and of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, which is part of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD combined statistical area, also known as the Delaware Valley or Philadelphia ...