Editing Cape May Point, New Jersey (section)

==History==
Cape May Point was called Stites Beach until 1876 when the name was changed to Seagrove.<ref>[http://www.getnj.com/historicroadsides/capemay.shtml Cape May County: Cape May Point] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070822231824/http://getnj.com/historicroadsides/capemay.shtml |date=August 22, 2007 }}, getnj.com. Accessed September 9, 2007.</ref> It was incorporated as a borough by an act of the [[New Jersey Legislature]] on April 19, 1878, from portions of [[Lower Township, New Jersey|Lower Township]], based on the results of a referendum held three days earlier. It was reincorporated on August 19, 1891 and returned to Lower Township on April 8, 1896. Cape May Point re-emerged as an independent municipality on April 6, 1908, based on the results of a referendum held on April 21, 1908.<ref name=Story>Snyder, John P. [https://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/bulletin67.pdf ''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190813051347/https://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/bulletin67.pdf |date=August 13, 2019 }}, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 114. Accessed October 16, 2012.</ref> The borough's name derives from [[Cape May]], which was named for 1620 [[Netherlands|Dutch]] captain named [[Cornelius Jacobsen May]] who explored and charted the area between 1611–1614, and established a claim for the province of [[New Netherland]].<ref>Hutchinson, Viola L. [http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf#page=9 ''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151115082401/http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf#page=9 |date=November 15, 2015 }}, New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed August 28, 2015.</ref><ref>[[Henry Gannett|Gannett, Henry]]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA68 ''The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112104733/https://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA68 |date=January 12, 2016 }}, p. 68. [[United States Government Printing Office]], 1905. Accessed August 28, 2015.</ref>

The remains of [[SS Atlantus|SS ''Atlantus'']] [[World War I]]-era [[concrete ship]] are located of the coast of Cape May Point, next to [[Sunset Beach (New Jersey)|Sunset Beach]].<ref>[http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/exploretheshore/things-to-do/culture-arts/historical-sites/concrete-ship-wreck-at-cape-may-point/article_276367cb-2636-58c7-9973-8b360ea5c69d.html "Concrete ship wreck at Cape May Point"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016122651/http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/exploretheshore/things-to-do/culture-arts/historical-sites/concrete-ship-wreck-at-cape-may-point/article_276367cb-2636-58c7-9973-8b360ea5c69d.html |date=October 16, 2017 }}, ''[[The Press of Atlantic City]]'', April 24, 2010. Accessed October 15, 2017.</ref>