Historical Marker

County Seat

Marker is on North Main Street 0.1 miles south of Church Street, on the left when traveling north. · Cape May

Inscription

Settled by Shamgar Hand 1690. “Middletown” became Cape May Court House. First County building, 1745; this structure, 1849.

AddressMarker is on North Main Street 0.1 miles south of Church Street, on the left when traveling north.

County sear of Cape May County, settled in 1690 by Shangar Hand.

A causeway was built here in the 1790s establishing a new overland route.

During the summer of 1776, two New Jersey and two Delaware companies were here to check on British fleet movements.

July 26, 1777, the British warship "Roebuck", entered Corson's Inlet, and a boat load of seamen were captured by the local militia under...

Friend's Meeting House.