Name That Town: How New Jersey’s Towns Got Their Names
By: Julie Gordon | Published: 2026-10-21 19:29:45 | Source: njmonthly.com
Sometime around 1614, Dutch sea captain Cornelis Mey sailed along the Jersey Shore in a ship called the Fortune. There’s no evidence Mey ever set foot on the beach, but he left behind his name, later Anglicized as Cape May.
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Today, Dutch and other European-inspired names abound among New Jersey’s 564 municipalities, alongside names attributed to the state’s original inhabitants, the…
