Cape May Museum & Nature Center

Cape May Museum & Nature Center is a museum in Lower Township, Cape May County, New Jersey. Cape May Museum & Nature Center is situated nearby to Cape May Lighthouse, as well as near the town hall Cape May Point Municipal Building.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cape May Lighthouse and Battery 223.

Cape May Lighthouse

Lighthouse

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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. Cape May Lighthouse is situated 440 feet northwest of Cape May Museum & Nature Center.

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. Battery 223 is situated 1,100 feet east of Cape May Museum & Nature Center.

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. Saint Peter’s-By-The-Sea Episcopal Church is situated 2,000 feet west of Cape May Museum & Nature Center.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cape May Point and West Cape May.

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 metropolitan area.

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 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.

Cape May Museum & Nature Center

Type: Museum
Categories: building, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: Lower Township, Cape May County, Jersey Shore, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.93204° or 38° 55′ 55″ north

Longitude

-74.95944° or 74° 57′ 34″ west

Open location code

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OpenStreetMap ID

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OpenStreetMap feature

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OpenStreetMap feature

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