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Do you know of Cape May Point ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Cape May Point. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Cape May Point.

Our sources for Cape May Point (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Cape May Point other than they indicate that Cape May Point would be found somewhere in Cape May County, New Jersey.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1878.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Cape May Point ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Cape May Point:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Cape May Point - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station

George#&160;F. Cram Map of New Jersey (1905)
Published by George F. Cram& Co.

North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)

Shell Oil Road Map for New Jersey (1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

More Orphans in  Cape May County ...

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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Cape May County.

Avalon 
 Lower
Bay Shore West 
Beach CreekMiramar
  
Corson SidingOcean City Gardens
Corsons Inlet 
 Peermont
Dennis 
 Schellengers Landing
EdgewoodSewells Point
  
GardensWest Ocean City
 Whale Beach
Harbor Branch JunctionWhitesboro - Burleigh
HerfordWoodbine
Holly Beach 

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024