Sassafras Island
Sassafras Island is an island in Cape May County, Jersey Shore, New Jersey. Sassafras Island is situated nearby to the hamlet Sunset Beach, as well as near the village West Cape May.Places of Interest
Highlights include Cape May Lighthouse and Saint Peter’s-By-The-Sea Episcopal Church.
Cape May Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: DidierMoise, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cape May Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in the U.S. state of New Jersey at the tip of Cape May, in Lower Township's Cape May Point State Park. It was built in 1859 under the supervision of U.S. Army engineer William F.
Saint Peter’s-By-The-Sea Episcopal Church
Church
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
Saint Peter's-By-The-Sea Episcopal Church, known locally as The Gingerbread Church, is a historic church located at the junction of Ocean Avenue and Lake Drive in Cape May Point, Cape May County, New Jersey, United States.
Battery 223
Bunker
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
Battery 223 is in Lower Township, Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. The harbor defense battery was completed in 1943. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 25, 2008.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Cape May and Cape May Point.
West Cape May
Village
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West Cape May is a Walsh Act borough in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The borough, and all of Cape May County, is part of the South Jersey region of the state and of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, which is part of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD combined statistical area, also known as the Delaware Valley or Philadelphia metropolitan area.
Cape May Point
Village
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Cape May Point is a borough located at the tip of the Cape May Peninsula in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The borough, and all of Cape May County, is part of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, and is part of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD combined statistical area, also known as the Delaware Valley or Philadelphia metropolitan area.
Cape May
Photo: SnapShotCapeMay, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cape May is a resort town in the state of New Jersey, in the United States. It lies at the southernmost point in New Jersey, on the Cape May Peninsula, on the Atlantic Coast.
Sassafras Island
- Type: Island
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Cape May County, Jersey Shore, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.95015° or 38° 57′ 1″ northLongitude
-74.9546° or 74° 57′ 17″ westElevation
10 feet (3 metres)Open location code
87C7X22W+35OpenStreetMap ID
node 357729465OpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
4503974
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