Vacation At Cape May Nj

Cape May New Jersey is the oldest seashore resort in the United States of America. Cape May New Jersey stretches 20 miles out into the Atlantic Ocean and has had many famous people visit. Some of the famous people who have visited Cape May New Jersey include John Phillip Sousa, P.T. Barnum, Gen. Robert E. Lee, William Tecumsah Sherman, Abraham Lincoln, James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce, Ulysses S. Grant and Benjamin Harrison. Cape May New Jersey was discovered in 1620 by Cornelius Jackson Mey, who promptly named it after himself. However, the spelling was later changed from Mey to May. In 1761 Cape May New Jersey became a seashore resort. Cape May New Jersey, today, has hundreds of Victorian style houses in town and Cape May New Jersey has been designates a National Historic Landmark City. This was done in 1976. Cape May New Jersey has been called a “living picture post card” by those who have visited the city. Interestingly enough, Cape May New Jersey is located below the Mason-Dixon line, which, technically, makes it a southern city and resort. The Mason-Dixon line, for those unfamiliar with Civil War

history, was the line drawn separating the northern United States from the southern United States. During most of the year Cape May New Jersey is just another town, but this changes during tourist season, which typically beings with the Memorial Day weekend and ends in the middle of September. When visiting Cape May New Jersey during tourist season you will have to have a beach tag. Yes, visitors are charged to use the beaches, but this is to help keep them up and maintained. Some of the attractions at Cape May New Jersey include working lighthouses, a cold springs village, a fireman’s museum, an arts league, a bird observatory and, strangely enough, a concrete ship named “Atlantus.”