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Lunch & Learn: Travel & Transportation

with Historic Cold Spring Village

Feel free to bring your lunch! Light refreshments will be available.

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Travel & Transportation - colonial times through the 1800s

When using a horse and buggy to get around, without paved roads or bridges, or navigating ships that were faced with dangerous perils of their own, such as uncharted rocks or the ever-looming threat of pirates, not to mention the difficulties with the weather, transporting people and goods was cumbersome! 

We will discuss the difficulties early Cape May settlers faced when traveling, prior to the introduction of modern roads and the automobile, the solutions and advancements that they helped to uncover, and the advancements of tourism in regards to Cape May, during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Join us for a discussion of the development of tourism and the means of transportation that helped to make Cape May America’s first seashore resort.

Historic Cold Spring Village is a non-profit educational institution established as an Early American open-air living history museum. Its purpose is three-fold: historic preservation, history education, and heritage tourism. This is accomplished by promoting New Jersey history through extensive programs utilizing the architecture, lifestyles, arts, history, and culture found in a rural South Jersey village during the early to mid-19th century.

The Village endeavors to provide visitors from throughout New Jersey and the nation, and around the world with an understanding of their cultural heritage through a personal encounter with the past.

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