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CAPE MAY , a See also:

city and watering-See also:place of Cape May See also:county, New See also:Jersey, U.S.A., on the See also:Atlantic See also:coast, 2 M. E.N.E. of Cape May, the S. extremity of the See also:state, and about 8o m. S. by E. of See also:Philadelphia. Pop. (1890) 2,36; (1900) 2257; (1905) 3006; (1910) 2471. Cape May is. served by the See also:Maryland, See also:Delaware & See also:Virginia (by See also:ferry to See also:Lewes, Delaware), the See also:West Jersey & Seashore (See also:Pennsylvania See also:system), and the Atlantic City (See also:Reading system) See also:railways, and, during the summer See also:season, by steamboat to Philadelphia. The See also:principal See also:part of the city is on a See also:peninsula (formerly Cape See also:Island) between the ocean and See also:Cold See also:Spring inlet, which has been dredged and is protected by jetties to make a suitable See also:harbour. The further improvement of the inlet and the harbour was authorized by See also:Congress in 1907. On the ocean See also:side, along a hard See also:sand See also:beach 5 M. See also:long, is the Esplanade. There are numerous hotels and handsome cottages for summer visitors, who come especially from Philadelphia, from New See also:York, from the See also:South and from the West. Cape May offers See also:good bathing, See also:yachting and fishing, with See also:driving and See also:hunting in the wooded See also:country inland from the coast. At Cape May Point is the Cape May lighthouse, 145 ft. high, built in 1800 and rebuilt in 1859.

In the city are canneries of vegetables and See also:

fruit, See also:glass-See also:works and a See also:gold-beating See also:establishment. See also:Fish and oysters are exported. Cape May was named by Cornelis See also:Jacobsen Mey, director of the See also:Prince Hendrick (Delaware) See also:river for the West See also:India See also:Company of See also:Holland, who took See also:possession of the river in 1623, and planted the See also:short-lived See also:colony of Fort See also:Nassau 4 M. below Philadelphia, near the See also:present See also:Gloucester City, N.J. Cape May was settled about 1699,a previous See also:attempt to See also:settle here made by See also:Samuel Blommaert in 1631 was unsuccessful. It was an important whaling See also:port See also:early in the 18th See also:century, and became prominent as a watering-place See also:late in that century. It was incorporated as the See also:borough of Cape Island in 1848, and chartered as the city of Cape Island in 1851; in 1869 the name was changed to Cape May.

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