Cape May and Millville Railroad stock certificate 1868 (New Jersey)

Desirable and prized RR collectible!  Absolutely stunning vignette of an 1860's beach scene with bathers, boardwalk, and buildings. Lighthouse in the left of the vignette. Issued and pen cancelled. Typical glue stains to the left. Light wrinkling and folds but a better specimen than most. Dated 1868. Approximately 10.5 x 7 inches.

The Cape May & Millville Railroad was chartered in 1863 as a competitor to the Millville and Glassboro Railroad. The line acquired permission from the state to build along the right-of-way the Millville and Glassboro line had reserved in a previous charter. The full line extended 41 miles. It operated independently until it was leased by the West Jersey Railroad in 1869. The railroad was fully integrated into the West Jersey Railroad in 1879, and its assets and operations were eventually absorbed into the larger Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines in 1933. The railroad tracks in Millville ran northwest to southeast through the town with a depot at High and Broad Streets. Another minor depot was located at the rear of the yard of Warren Hall on the north side of Broad Street between Buck and High Streets.

Cape May is a city and seaside resort located at the southern tip of Cape May Peninsula in Cape May County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Located on the Atlantic Ocean near the mouth of the Delaware Bay, it is one of the country's oldest vacation resort destinations. What is now Cape May was formed as the borough of Cape Island by the New Jersey Legislature on March 8, 1848, from portions of Lower Township. It was reincorporated as Cape Island City on March 10, 1851, and was renamed Cape May City on March 9, 1869.

Because of the World War II submarine threat off the East Coast of the United States, especially off the shore of Cape May and at the mouth of the Delaware Bay, numerous United States Navy facilities were located here in order to protect American coastal shipping. Cape May Naval facilities, listed below, provided significant help in reducing the number of ships and crew members lost at sea.

In 1976, Cape May was designated a National Historic Landmark as the Cape May Historic District, making Cape May the only city in the U.S. to be wholly designated as a national historic district.

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