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Postcards from Cape May
Text by CapeMay.com | Published November 1st, 2001 in Books • Cape May • History Books • In Pictures
CapeMay.com’s first in a series of “Postcards from Cape May” is from the classic collection of Don and Pat Pocher, to whom we are indeed grateful. A wider selection has been published in their book, Cape May in Vintage Postcards, one of Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America” series. The accompanying descriptive text is mostly from that book.
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Sentinel of the Jersey Cape: an excerpt from the Story of the Cape May Lighthouse
Text by John Bailey | Published November 1st, 2001 in Books • Cape May Point • History Books
Behold the Cape May Lighthouse.
She stands there so silently and aloof that we find it difficult to fathom her age and the epochs that have swirled about her base. At her birth (1859), the era of the steamship had not quite dawned. As the first keepers trimmed her sperm whale oil lamps and polished her [...] -
The Road Not Taken: An Excerpt from “The Summer City by the Sea”
Text by CapeMay.com | Published August 1st, 2000 in Books • Cape May • History Books
A contemporary description of the 1878 pre-fire Cape May skyline, observed from the deck of a passing sailboat, spoke of the “flashing lines of festival lights connecting the continuous row of monstrous four-floored buildings, seeming to touch each other…”
These lights were anchored on each end by railroad properties, the Sea Breeze Excursion House on the western end of the city and the great Stockton on the east. Although both of these hotels survived the inferno, the “continuous row of monstrous buildings” between them was now reduced to ashes.