Cape May County - Images of America Food and Congress Hall

and Congress Hall

Tumbled and Polished Cape May Diamonds

Its wide beach and sparkling ocean beckon to sunbathers

construction of the huge Hotel Cape May

Cape May County - Images of America Food and Congress HallNew Jersey's historic Cape May County, on a peninsula situated between the Atlantic Ocean and the Delaware Bay, was named for Cornelis Mey (later May), a Dutch captain who sailed past her shores in the early 1600s. English speaking whalers and farmers from New England settled here in the late 1600s, buying large tracts they called plantations. Shipbuilding became an important industry in the 19th century, employing hundreds who crafted sloops and