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Ocean City is a city in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. It is the principal city of the Ocean City Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Cape May County.
Ocean City is a barrier island with bridge connections to Upper Township, Atlantic County, Somers Point, and Strathmere. The Eastern side of Ocean City borders the Atlantic Ocean, while the Western side faces the Great Egg Harbor.
Known first as Peck's Beach, a 7 mile stretch of sand dunes, meadows and cedar swamps was probably named for John Peck, a whaler who used the island as a staging spot for his whaling operation.
The island had served as a summer fishing camp for local Native Americans, a grazing land for cattle driven out from the mainland and an occasional hunting or picnic spot for mainland residents who would come out by boat. Original ownership of the land was by the Somers family.
Several individuals had made their home on the island, most notable of which was Parker Miller who had served as an agent for marine insurance companies. He and his family lived in a home at about what is now the southwest corner of Seventh Street and Asbury Avenue.
The Great Egg Harbor River (known locally as the Great Egg) is a river, approximately 50 mi long, in southern New Jersey in the USA. It is one of the major rivers that transverse the largely pristine Pinelands, draining wetlands into the Atlantic Ocean at Great Egg Harbor, from which it takes its name.
Great Egg Harbor (and thus the river) got its name from Dutch explorer Cornelius Jacobsen Mey. In 1614, Mey came upon the inlet to the Great Egg Harbor River. The meadows were so covered with shorebird and waterfowl eggs that he called it "Eyren Haven" (Egg Harbor).
Cape May County is the southernmost county in the USA state of New Jersey.
Most of the county is flat and coastal. Sea level is the lowest point; the highest elevation is found at three areas in Belleplain State Forest in the county's northern corner.
Areas
in the county include or have included ; Avalon, Cape May Point , Cape May, Dennis
Township, Dennisville, Lower Township, Diamond Beach, Erma, North Cape May, Villas,
Middle Township, Cape May Court House, Green Creek, Rio Grande, Whitesboro-Burleigh,
North Wildwood (city), Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Stone Harbor (borough), Upper
Township, Beesleys Point, Marmora, Strathmere, Tuckahoe, West Cape May, West Wildwood,
Wildwood Crest, Wildwood , Woodbine (borough)
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