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Millville Army Air Field Museum
The Millville Army Air Field Museum exists to preserve U.S. military aviation history, up to and including events like the Middle East conflict, and also to honor veterans and promote aviation for future generations.

The Oldest Seashore Resort
The entire city of Cape May was designated a National Historic Landmark by the United States Department of the Interior in 1976. Rightly so, its Victorian architecture, tenderly restored and preserved, accents Cape May's reputation as the nation's oldest and "queen" of seashore resorts...

Historic Prison Museum, Mt. Holly
Perhaps one of the most solid and time-tested structures in South Jersey is the Burlington County Prison, now a museum, located in Mount Holly.

Estell Manor, Atlantic County Park
The forests, plants and animals of Estell Manor Park have been slowly reclaiming their land, but haven’t managed to completely obscure the fact that this 1700-acre tract of land has served as the site of a glassworks in the 1800s and later became the site of a munitions plant during World War I.

History: The North-South Freeway
In the late 1940s, the New Jersey State Highway Department proposed the North-South Freeway, a link that was to connect the eastern approach of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge with southern New Jersey points. Construction of the NJ 42 Freeway took on great importance...