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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.
Cape May Canal is a 2.9-nautical-mile (3.3 mi; 5.4 km) waterway connecting Cape May Harbor to the Delaware Bay, at the southern tip of Cape May County, New Jersey. [4] Before the canal was built, "Cape Island" referred to the site of the City of Cape May, southeast of Cape Island Creek, a tidal "creek" and marsh that has been partly filled in ...
The Cape May Formation is a geologic formation in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. [2] It preserves fossils. The Cape May is described as "Fine-to-coarse sand, minor silt and clay; yellow, brownish-yellow, reddish-yellow, very pale brown, light gray; minor pebble gravel." It may be massive (without stratification) or stratified. [3]
A "Flame of Hope" was lit by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother [79] in 1989 as a tribute to Dr. Frederick Grant Banting and all the people that have lost their lives to diabetes. The flame will remain lit until there is a cure for diabetes. [80] When a cure is found, the flame will be extinguished by the researchers who discover the ...
The 18-room mansion, designed by American architect Frank Furness, was built in 1879 for Dr. Emlen Physick Jr. (1855–1916), descendant of a well-known Philadelphia family, his widowed mother, Mrs. Ralston, and maiden Aunt Emilie. [1]
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.
A new study found that increases in life expectancy have slowed over the last few years, reaching a plateau. Here's how to increase yours, according to doctors. Scientists May Have Discovered The ...
Cape May Harbor Fest celebrates life in and around the harbor, with the 2011 event commemorating the 100th anniversary of the harbor's creation. [44] Cape May is the southernmost point in New Jersey. [45] It is at approximately the same latitude as Washington, D.C., and Arlington County, Virginia, and equidistant to Manhattan and Virginia. [46]