Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Between 1890 and 1939 about 30 pleasure boats operated from Margate beach. The main builder of these Thanet wherries was Brockman's of Margate, which turned them out in large numbers before World War I. It developed two distinct types of boats: the wherry proper, with high sides, and the wherry punt, with low sides. The hulls were traditionally ...
Lucy the Elephant is a six-story elephant-shaped wood frame and tin clad building, constructed in 1882 by James V. Lafferty in Margate City, New Jersey. Lucy was built with the purpose of promoting real estate sales and attracting tourists to the area. Today, Lucy remains the oldest surviving roadside tourist attraction in America. [4]
Margate City is a city situated on the Jersey Shore on Absecon Island, within Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, on the Atlantic Ocean shoreline.As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 5,317, [11] [12] a decrease of 1,037 (−16.3%) from the 2010 census count of 6,354, [21] [22] which in turn had reflected a decline of 1,839 (−22.4%) from the 8,193 ...
Absecon Island is a barrier island located on the South Jersey Shore of the Atlantic Ocean in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States.On the island from north to south are the resort communities of Atlantic City, Ventnor City, Margate City, and Longport, with a total population among the four communities of 53,917 as of the 2020 United States census. [1]
Marven Gardens is a neighborhood in Margate City, New Jersey, United States, located on the Jersey Shore, two miles (3 km) south of Atlantic City.The name Marven Gardens is a portmanteau derived from Margate City and Ventnor City, because it lies on the border of Margate City and Ventnor City.
Contents: Counties and communities in New Jersey Atlantic – Bergen ( Closter , Franklin Lakes , Ridgewood , Saddle River , Wyckoff ) – Burlington – Camden – Cape May – Cumberland – Essex – Gloucester – Hudson – Hunterdon – Mercer – Middlesex – Monmouth – Morris – Ocean – Passaic – Salem – Somerset – Sussex ...
This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 21:57 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
The Jersey Shore, commonly referred to locally as simply the Shore, is the coastal region of the U.S. state of New Jersey.Geographically, the term encompasses about 141 miles (227 km) [1] of oceanfront bordering the Atlantic Ocean, from Perth Amboy in the north to Cape May Point in the south.