Cape May County - A Pictorial History by Beitel, Herbert M. & Vance C. Enck - 1988

The Donning Company. New in New dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0898657490 . This specific hardback book is in new condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in new condition with no discernible wear. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "Surrounded by water for all but ten miles of its current borders, Cape May was for centuries an exposed, storm-ravaged, remote island jutting 30 miles into the Atlantic Ocean inhabited only by resourceful Indians and teeming wildlife. Intrepid New England whalers came ashore to establish the country's first settlements. Many of the settlers attracted to Cape May had a heritage of escaping from religious intolerance and persecution. These many factors combined to produce a special breed of rugged pioneers, hard-working, and devoted to their families with a passive disdain for governmental authority. There have been no major, glorious battles fought on Cape May soil. The Indians were a peaceful,helpful lot that left Cape May without bloodshed because they simply could not understand or live with the foreigners' concept of ownership. Cape Mayers have been everything from whalers, to shipbuilders, to fisherman, to lumberjacks, to artists, to hoteliers. In spite of a stoicism that rivals that of the most hard-bitten New England Yankee, Cape Mayers are a warm and tolerant group."; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 223 pages .