| The Houses of Old Cape May |
| Cape May, New Jersey is on the southern tip of the Cape May Peninsula, where the Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean. It began hosting vacationers from Philadelphia in the mid-18th century and is recognized as the oldest seaside resort in the U.S. In 1876, fire destroyed thirty acres of the town center. Replacement homes were almost uniformly of Victorian style. That, plus more recent preservation efforts, has caused Cape May to be known for its large number of well-maintained Victorian houses - the second largest collection of such homes in the U.S., after San Francisco. In 1976, the city of Cape May was officially designated a National Historic Landmark. It's the only city in America wholly designated as such. |
| Every street is a theatre. -- Ronald Blythe |
| No city should be too large for a man to walk out of it in a morning.-- Cyril Conolly |
| How I long for a rest in some boundless contiguity of shade, where rumor of oppression, famine or successful or unsuccessful war might never reach me.-- William Cowper |
| Always do your best to escape from the ordinary. -- Unknown |
| Like most travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. -- Benjamin Disraeli |
| Take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future. -- Bob Dylan |
| In the end, we conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand. We understand only what we are taught. -- B. Dioum |
| A life spent making mistakes is more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Bernard Shaw |
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