Earlier today, Preservation New Jersey announced their 2021 list of the 10 Most Endangered Historic Places. Their 10 Most program highlights “irreplaceable historic, architectural, cultural, and archaeological resources in New Jersey that are in imminent danger of being lost.” Two properties on this year’s list are located in Cape May County: the Allen A.M.E. Church… Read more »
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National Park Service accepts the Stephen Smith House into Network to Freedom
Since I first wrote about the Stephen Smith House for Cape May Magazine (Fall 2015), word has spread that the unassuming yellow clapboard house on Lafayette and Franklin Streets was the summer home of one of the foremost leaders of the Underground Railroad. Since then, thousands have taken MAC’s Underground Railroad Trolley Tour, which I… Read more »