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Cape May, city (1990 pop. 4,668), Cape May co., S N.J., on Cape May peninsula and the Atlantic Ocean; settled in the 1600s, inc. 1857. One of the nation's oldest beach resorts, it became known in the mid-19th cent. as the "President's Playground"; Lincoln, Grant, Arthur, Buchanan, Hayes, and Benjamin Harrison vacationed here. Its Victorian mansions and hotels are well known. The city is connected by ferry to Lewes, Del. Cape May, the southern extremity of New Jersey, has a lighthouse on Cape May Point at the entrance to Delaware Bay. The cape is bisected by a canal, c.3 mi (4.8 km) above the point, built 1942–43 as a war emergency measure to provide an alternative to the hazardous route around the cape; the canal is part of the Intracoastal Waterway Intracoastal Waterway, c.3,000 mi (4,827 km) long, partly natural, partly artificial, providing sheltered passage for commercial and leisure boats along the U.S. Atlantic coast from Boston, Mass. to Key West, S Fla. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The vessel was donated last summer to the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife's Artificial Reef Program and was sunk on July 18 in 80 feet of water about four miles southeast of Townsends Inlet just off Cape May County. Director of the Cape May Bird Observatory in New Jersey and author of many books for bird-watchers, Dunne encourages his readers to narrow their focus and to concentrate on the birds that live near them. 95, 60 minutes) introduces the viewer to such remarkable sights and landmarks as Cape May, Baymen's Seafood and Music Festival, Atlantic City, a historical reenactment of the Springfield Battle of the American Revolution, and dueling knights and Andalusian stallions in Lyndhurst. |
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