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5 unusual facts about Cape May


Battle of the Delaware Capes

Her master learned that three large sail had been seen patrolling off the Cape May Channel.

Cape May

In Mad Men season 1, Betty Draper reveals her father owns a vacation home on Cape May.

The first European to catch a glimpse of Cape May was navigator Henry Hudson and 18 of his crew mates on the Halve Maen.

In 1782 during the American Revolutionary War, the young Continental Navy Lieutenant Joshua Barney fought with a British squadron at Cape May and Delaware Bay.

Ron Joseph

In 1993, he opened low power television station, W05AX-TV in Wildwood/Cape May and four years later, in 1997, WELL-TV, Channel 8 in Willow Grove.


Army of Freshmen

Following his graduation from Lower Cape May Regional High School in Cape May, New Jersey, Chris Jay moved by himself to Ventura, California with the goal of starting a band.

B-class blimp

The Navy set up airship stations along the East Coast, at Chatham, Massachusetts, Montauk, Long Island, Rockaway Beach in NY City, Cape May, New Jersey, Norfolk, Virginia, and Key West and Pensacola, Florida.

Cape May Warbler

The English name refers to Cape May, New Jersey, where George Ord collected the specimen later described by Alexander Wilson.

Elephantine Colossus

It was the second of three elephants built by Lafferty, preceded by Atlantic City's Lucy the Elephant and followed by The Light of Asia in Cape May.

Moland House

General George Washington received a dispatch from John Hancock, President of the Second Continental Congress, which told Washington that the 260-vessel British fleet, hauling 17,000 British Army and Hessian troops under General William Howe, was fifty miles south of the Delaware Capes (Cape May and Cape Henlopen) on August 7.


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Beulah Land

Edgar Page Stites was of English descent and was born at Cape May, New Jersey, where his ancestors had settled after coming over on the Mayflower.

Cape May Bird Observatory

No doubt the most notable former Cape May birder is author David Allen Sibley.

Sibley wrote his classic field guide, The Sibley Guide to Birds, while he was living and birding in Cape May Point.

Cape May County Technical High School

Cape May County Technical High School, located in Cape May Court House, New Jersey, provides education to students from grades 9 through 12 from Cape May County, New Jersey, operating as part of the Cape May County Technical School District.

Cape May County, New Jersey

Because of the warmer wintertime temperatures, Hardy Palms, including Trachycarpus fortunei (Chinese Windmill Palm) and Needle Palms, would work quite well in the landscape, these plants having survived for many years also in other parts of coastal New Jersey, from Sandy Hook to Cape May.

Witmer Stone, ornithologist and author of Bird Studies at Old Cape May.

Cape May diamonds

Cape May diamonds (sometimes capitalized "Diamonds") are quartz pebbles found on the beaches of Cape May Point, New Jersey.

Cape May diamonds are actually pieces of quartz washed down, and worn smooth in the process, from the upper Delaware River.

Cape May Times

The Cape May Times was created in 2001 by Jane Kashlak, a former WNBC investigative producer and five-time New York Emmy Award winner.

Cape Sugarbird

The characteristic strong winds in the Cape may make feeding off protea heads difficult, but the Cape Sugarbird has adapted to this with the development of sharp claws.

Lawrence Schiller

His own books that became national bestsellers and made the New York Times Bestseller list include American Tragedy, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Cape May Court House, and Into the Mirror. He has directed seven motion pictures and miniseries for television; The Executioner's Song and Peter the Great won five Emmys.

New Jersey Route 162

Although the rights for a railroad in the area by the New Jersey General Assembly had been allowed since 1832, there has been no progress on any railroad in Cape May County until 1863.

New Jersey Route 55

In 2009, State Senator Jeff Van Drew introduced a plan for an extension of Route 55 into Cape May County where the South Jersey Transportation Authority would build the road.

South Jersey Transportation Authority

State Senator Jeff Van Drew has called for the SJTA to build the southern extension of Route 55 as an elevated toll road from its current southern terminus at Route 47 in Port Elizabeth to Cape May County.

Winery

The east coast of the United States also has winemaking regions like New York's Finger Lakes region, Aquidneck Island, RI and Long Island, NY and Cape May, NJ.