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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B7G_1883-original-terminus-anglesea-railroad_Wildwood-NJ.html
The stone block below marks the original terminus of the Anglesea Railroad, as shown on a map field with the Secretary of State linked with the West Jersey Railroad at a point 2.6 miles south of Cape May Court House Station, and eventually ran fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28CV_hereford-inlet-lightouse_North-Wildwood-NJ.html
Work was completed in the spring of 1874 at this site, the original location of the Hereford Inlet Lighthouse. The fourth-order Fresnel Lens in the tower was illuminated for the first time on May 11, 1874. Erosion on the south side of the Inlet, d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28CR_boardwalk_North-Wildwood-NJ.html
In February 1904 Borough Council, authorized construction of a Boardwalk on Surf Avenue from this point to the Borough's southern border. It was removed just 8 years later due to the rapidly expanding beach, and a new Boardwalk was built closer to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28CO_hotel-anglesea_Wildwood-NJ.html
Built in 1880, the Hotel Anglesea stood 300 feet east of this marker and was the site of the first Borough Council Meeting on June 3, 1885. The Hotel was 150 feet long with 50 rooms, but just two stories high so as to not obstruct the beacon of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28CN_boardwalk_Wildwood-NJ.html
In March 1912 Borough Council authorized the removal of the Boardwalk on Surf Avenue and construction of a new Boardwalk closer to the ocean. The 1912 Boardwalk would connect with the boardwalk in Wildwood, which had also been moved eastward from …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28CM_west-jersey-and-seashore-railroad_North-Wildwood-NJ.html
The WJSRR's North Wildwood Station, located at this site, was very busy during the growth of the southern part of the Borough in the early 1900s, but the tracks in North Wildwood were abandoned after the Pennsylvania and Reading Railroads merged d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25T2_lighthouse-keepers-homes-gardens_Cape-May-NJ.html
From the time the current lighthouse was built in 1859 to the time it was electrified around 1933, four keepers, their assistants, and their families lived and worked on this landscape by the sea.
The keepers and their periods of service were:…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25T1_george-henry-white_NJ.html
Last African-American Congressman of the Reconstruction Era.
Only black member of the 55th Congress.
Attorney and founding member of Whitesboro, NJ.
Recognizing that economic power would be the path to equality for Black Americans, Republ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25T0_this-is-the-home-of-the-whitesboro-grammar-school_NJ.html
Susie Smith - first teacher at the one room public school
Alice DeVane Jones - original settler and devoted teacher for forty eight years
Inez Kelly Jones Edmonds - first principal and teacher for forty years
Charlotte Roberson Harmon - sec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25SY_atlantic-city-railroad-cape-may-division_Cape-May-NJ.html
The Cape May Division of the Atlantic City (Philadelphia & Reading) Railroad ran from Winslow Junction to Cape May City with branches to Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Stone Harbor, and Wildwood.
This railroad was initially instrumental in the devel…