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Inset: Location of Cape May County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
Map of Wildwood in Cape May County.
Inset: Location of Cape May County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
Enumeration Bureau map of Wildwood, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Wildwood, New Jersey State New Jersey Wildwood is a town/city in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States.
The Wildwoods is used as a collective term for the four communities that have "Wildwood" as part of the municipality name the Borough of Wildwood Crest, City of Wildwood, Borough of West Wildwood and the City of North Wildwood together with Diamond Beach, a portion of Lower Township situated on the island. The city, and the encircling communities that share the name, derives its name from the wild flowers found in the area. Wildwood was originally incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on May 1, 1895, from portions of Middle Township, based on the results of a popular vote held the previous day.
On January 1, 1912, Wildwood was incorporated as a city, replacing both Wildwood borough and Holly Beach City. Wildwood is home to over 200 motels, assembled amid the Doo-Wop era of the 1950s and 1960s, in an region recognized by the state of New Jersey, known as the Wildwoods Shore Resort Historic District. The term "doo-wop" was coined by Cape May's Mid-Atlantic Center For The Arts in the early 1990s to describe the unique, space-age architectural style, which is also referred to as the Googie or populuxe style. The Caribbean Motel in Wildwood Crest, and the Chateau Bleu Motel in North Wildwoods are both listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
On the same island are the suburbs of North Wildwood, Wildwood Crest and Diamond Beach, a place in Lower Township.
Collectively with the town of West Wildwood (located on a separate, adjoining island), these communities form "The Wildwoods" resort.
State law normally provides for one consumption license (i.e., for a bar, restaurant) for every 3,000 residents, and one distribution license (i.e., for a liquor store) for every 7500 residents. Because of a state law allowing a municipality to grandfather in liquor licenses that existed before 1948, Wildwood has a permanent populace of 5,300, but has 61 active liquor licenses. Wildwood is a resort town/city that is very prominent with vacationers and tourists mostly from New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, and even close-by parts of Canada (particularly Ontario and Quebec) amid the summer months.
Wildwood was ranked the best beach in New Jersey in the 2008 Top 10 Beaches Contest sponsored by the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium. Wildwood is one of five municipalities in the state that offer no-charge enhance access to oceanfront beaches monitored by lifeguards, joining Atlantic City, North Wildwood, Wildwood Crest and Upper Township's Strathmere section. Wildwood is home to the New Jersey Firefighter's Convention, held annually every September since the 1970s.
The year-round populace of Wildwood of over 5,300 grows to as many as 250,000 or more amid the peak tourist season amid the summer. French Canadian tourists visit Wildwood amid the summer. Since the City of Wildwood has been incorporated on January 1, 1912, there have been three recall elections all of which were successful.
Wildwood City is positioned in the 2nd Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 1st state legislative district. New Jersey's Second Congressional District is represented by Frank Lo - Biondo (R, Ventnor City). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).
Bruce Land (D, Vineland). The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham Township). The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach). Cape May County is governed by a Board of Chosen Freeholders consisting of five members, propel at-large in partisan elections to three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with one or two seats coming up for election each year; At an annual reorganization held each January, the freeholders select one member to serve as Director and another to serve as Vice-Director. As of 2015, Cape May County's Freeholders are Freeholder Director Gerald M.
Marie Hayes (Ocean City, 2016), and Will Morey (Wildwood Crest, 2017). The county's constitutional officers are Sheriff Gary Schafer (Middle Township, 2017), Surrogate M.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the precinct and its three schools had an enrollment of 851 students and 94.3 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 9.0:1. Schools in the precinct (with 2014-15 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are Glenwood Elementary School (Pre - K-5; 462 students), Wildwood Middle School (6-8; 156 students) and Wildwood High School (9-12; 252 students). Public school students from West Wildwood, a non-operating school district, attend the district's schools for grades K-12 as part of a sending/receiving relationship. For ninth through twelfth grades, students from North Wildwood and Wildwood Crest attend Wildwood High School as part of sending/receiving relationships. There are two Catholic schools on the island, Cape Trinity Catholic Regional School and Wildwood Catholic High School, which operate separately but have shared a common building since September 2010. Both schools operate under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden. The town/city had a total of 32.38 miles (52.11 km) of roadways, of which 29.93 miles (48.17 km) were maintained by the municipality, 2.37 miles (3.81 km) by Cape May County and 0.08 miles (0.13 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Route 47 (Rio Grande Avenue) has its southern end in Wildwood and continues into Lower Township via the George Reading Wildwood Bridge, which provides access to the Garden State Parkway. County Route 621 (New Jersey Avenue) runs for 1.3 miles (2.1 km) through the borough, from Wildwood Crest to the south to North Wildwood in the north. The Press of Atlantic City a primary daily journal in South New Jersey which includes a Cape May County edition.
Cape May County Herald a weekly journal with news and knowledge for inhabitants of Cape May County.
Bruce Willis worked as a bartender in Wildwood in his early days and can be seen on the Wildwood Days documentary. "Wildwood Blues", the 1967 song by the psychedelic modern band Nazz, is based on the Wildwood scene. In the 1987 movie Wall Street, when Charlie Sheen's character tells Daryl Hannah's character she could have bought a beach home for four hundred thousand dollars (the value of a painting they were looking at) she sardonically replies, "Sure you could, in Wildwood New Jersey". See also: Category:People from Wildwood, New Jersey.
Thompson Baker (1847 1919), represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional precinct from 1913 to 1915, and was the first mayor of the merged town/city of Wildwood. a b c d e f 2010 Enumeration Gazetteer Files: New Jersey County Subdivisions, United States Enumeration Bureau.
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"The Wildwoods consists of North Wildwood, Wildwood City, West Wildwood and Wildwood Crest and the region is known for its 2 1/2-mile-long boardwalk." The Origin of New Jersey Place Names, New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945.
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"Wildwood considers beach bars among ways to increase revenue", The Press of Atlantic City, February 14, 2012.
"Families have been vacationing at the Jersey Shore for more than a century and the Wildwood Doo Wop motels have been a prominent beach destination since their assembly from 1956 to 1970." "Neighboring Wildwood Crest came in second, followed by Ocean City, North Wildwood, Cape May, Asbury Park in Monmouth County, Avalon, Point Pleasant Beach in northern Ocean County, Beach Haven in southern Ocean County and Stone Harbor." "New Jersey has five no-charge guarded ocean beaches Atlantic City, Wildwood, North Wildwood, Wildwood Crest and the Strathmere section of Upper Township." The Beach, New Jersey Wildwoods.
"Wildwood Ultimate returns for 19th beach tournament", Shore News Today, July 28, 2011.
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"Updated: Wildwood voters pick Troiano, Byron and Leonetti for Commission", Shore News Today, May 10, 2011.
"Voters also decided that the municipal election in Wildwood should be moved to the general election day in November 739 to 416.A yes vote supported moving the next municipal election to November 2015." The Official Cape May County 2015 Directory, Cape May County, New Jersey.
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Bradway, First of Sex to Hold Post in Jersey, Loses in Recall Election SHE LAYS MOVE TO HAGUE Although a Republican, She Has Aided Democrats, but Shifted Back Last Fall WILDWOOD OUSTS ITS WOMAN MAYOR Says Hague Dominates Move Indicted After Inquiry New Petition Circulated", The New York Times, February 19, 1938.
Bradway, New Jersey's first woman Mayor, was defeated today in a special recall election in this resort city.
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"She said the remaining 13 non-operating districts, which include Corbin City and Longport in Atlantic County, Cape May Point and West Wildwood in Cape May County, and Newfield in Gloucester County, have additional issues that must still be addressed." Wildwood City School District 2016 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education.
"Students from North Wildwood, Wildwood Crest, and West Wildwood, join students from Wildwood at Wildwood High School." "Cape Trinity Catholic School opens in Wildwood Catholic building", The Press of Atlantic City, September 8, 2010.
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"In another time: Three actors, three different takes on Wildwood life", Shore News Today, January 4, 2011.
" According to his biography, Willis first worked at a clothing store at the corner of Pacific and Garfield Avenues in Wildwood amid the summer and then as a bartender one evening a week at the prominent Red Garter eveningclub in North Wildwood.
Rumored to be titled for Colonel Rickey, an English officer once based in Washington, D.C., it is more popularly cited as originally being from the seaside resort improve of Wildwood, New Jersey." "Without giving too much of the macabre story away, drummer Jess Margera revealed that the track is about a childhood trip Miller took with his family to Wildwood, New Jersey, where he 'full-on found some dead body under the boardwalk.'" "Aldean, the latest crooner trying to claim the mantle of Kenny Chesney Lite, strolls the Cape May beach and Wildwood Boardwalk with suitable pathos in this video, as he warbles your boilerplate 'Weren't things great back when' nation tune from his latest CD, Relentless." "Wildwood Acts As Home To New Major Motion Picture".
"Wildwood's Randy Beverly had two interceptions for the New York Jets in Super Bowl III." "Edwin Corle (1906-1956) was born in Wildwood, New Jersey.
"Born in Wildwood, N.J., Miss Bright briefly belonged to the Naval Reserve in New Jersey and then stayed on as a civilian employee at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station." "In Another Time: A story of terror and murder started with a Wildwood birth", Shore News Today, November 9, 2013.
Lowden interval up in Wildwood, was Miss Cape May County, and was the second runner up for Miss America." He was from Wildwood, New Jersey." "Born in Wildwood, New Jersey, George received both his B.A.
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