#1 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth Beach Historical
17 Christian St Rehoboth Beach DE - 302-226-1119
~0.09 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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#2 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Cape May Lighthouse
Cape May NJ
~16.36 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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#3 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Cape May Point State Park
Cape May NJ
~16.58 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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Cape May Point State Park, located in Cape May Point, New Jersey, is a park with walking, hiking and nature trails as well as beaches, an exhibit gallery, a ranger office and is the site of the Cape May Light. The park is operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry.
Cape May Point State Park is considered to be one of the best places in North America to view the Fall bird migration to the south. Because of this, birding is one of the most prominent activities conducted at the park.
Every fall, visitors converge from across the country to witness the migration of most types of North American migratory birds in great numbers. Every year the a hawk watch is also held, in which the numbers of various types of migratory birds of prey are counted during a several month period.
Birds can be seen in the Park at three areas. These are the hawk watching platform (for hawks), the nature and hiking trails (for songbirds) and the beach (shorebirds). For the most part, birds of many varieties can be seen at all of these areas year round.
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Cape May Point State Park has three hiking trails. The red, handicapped accessible trail is half a mile (0.8 km) long and is a boardwalk. It also has a birding platform and a bird blind.
The yellow trail is 1.3 miles (2 km) long and is part boardwalk and part dirt. It begins from the red trail and has one additional birding platform.
The blue trail, closed for a long time due to hurricane damage in the 1960s, reopened again in the 1990s. It is two miles (3 km) long, part of which is on the beach. All trails end at the parking lot.
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#4 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Cape May Bird Observatory
Cape May NJ
~16.82 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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The Cape May Bird Observatory was founded in 1975 in Cape May, New Jersey, United States. The purpose of the Cape May Bird Observatory is to conduct research, encourage conservation, and organize educational and recreational birding activities. It consists of two separate centers: the Center for Research and Education in Cape May Court House in the central part of Cape May County, and the Northwood Center in Cape May Point. The current director is Pete Dunne, a well-known birding author.
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#5 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Sunset Beach
Cape May NJ
~16.92 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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#6 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Cape May Stage
Cape May NJ
~17.19 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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Cape May Stage provides high quality professional Equity theatre, focused on excellence in acting in an intimate setting, to the residents and visitors of Cape May and surrounding areas; and fosters Arts Education in academic and non-traditional venues.
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History of Our Building
Cape Island Presbyterian Church (1850)
By John Bailey
In 1844, the Trustees of the historic Cold Spring Presbyterian Church built a church on the north side of Washington Street east of the bend (location of the present 1st Methodist Church) Contributions from summer visitors largely financed the structure, so they called it the “Visitors’ Church.” Since they had a building and quite a few members, the Cape Island Presbyterians decided to form their own congregation. However, the Mother Church at Cold Spring did not agree to the maverick Cape Islanders’ plans and rejected their offers to purchase the church.
In January of 1853, the trustees of the Cape Island Presbyterian Church ( James Mecray, Benjamin Bellange, William Stites, and Joseph Church) purchased a lot on the north side of Lafayette Street, at the corner of what is now Bank Street. Local builder, Peter Hand, designed and built their church, completing it by July with dedication services on July 17th. For the rest of that summer Cape Islanders and visitors alike thronged the beautiful new church. Mr. Hand designed a Georgian-vernacular style building with an oddly graceful onion-curved, mosque-like, cupola. The “Visitors’ Church” on Washington Street languished as the Presbyterians all attended the new vital church on Lafayette Street in droves. In the fall of 1853, the Cold Spring trustees sold it to the Methodists.
Cape May’s Civil War hero, Colonel Henry Washington Sawyer, was a member of the congregation at the time of his capture at the Battle of Brandy Station June 9, 1863. He languished in the Confederacy’s infamous Libby Prison until his release in a prisoner exchange that involved the nephew of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. In letters to his wife from prison, Sawyer often mentioned the church and how he longed to accompany her there on Sunday mornings. The Colonel gave away his daughter in marriage on the alter of the church.
The church served the congregation until 1898 when they moved to their new church at Hughes and Decatur Streets. The trustees sold the old church to Annie Knight. She bought it for the local Episcopalians, who had no building.
In the mid 50s, one of the City’s proposed solutions to the increasing automobile parking problem was to tear down the old Cape Island Presbyterian Church and an old fire station next to it on the corner of Lafayette and Bank Streets to create a parking lot. The City purchased the church for $2,000 from the Church of the Advent Episcopalians, and began demolition plans. However, an early Cape Island preservationist, Tom Harris, intervened to save the building.
Tom met with Mayor Sam Eldredge and the City Commissioners, and convinced them that the building was worth saving. He pointed out that Cape May did not have a much needed Central Community House. The Mayor and Commissioners agreed to support Tom’s effort. Nathan C. Staller, Counselor at law for Cape May drew up Incorporation papers for the Historical and Community Center of Cape May (HCC), Inc. The City demolished the old fire station on the corner to provide parking for the building.
They invited the Episcopal Bishop to officially deconsecrate the building. They painted the inside an attractive moss green with a white ceiling. They set up a kitchen that could service affairs of up to 150 people. Various people donated furniture, fixtures, cooking and serving utensils, and a piano. The Board declared the building available for art exhibitions, dances, plays, meetings of associations. banquets, etc.
After running the Center for seventeen years, Tom grew tired of the job and its responsibilities. So, in 1973 Mayor Minnix suggested that the City take over running the Center. The City converted its primary use into a Visitor Welcome Center, though it still served for meetings, plays, and such. They installed Connie Costen, as director of the Welcome Center and she ran it well for many years.
One of the City’s greatest problems with the building was pigeons in the attic. The birds entered the attic through an open vent. The Chief of Police, Harry Stotz came up with the idea of shooting the pigeons, then closing up their access hole. It took a lot of money to repair the holes in the tin roof but he did kill maybe a half-dozen pigeons.1
The former church now has a new life as the Robert Shackleton Playhouse, home of Cape May Stage. The building is rated key in the Historic District of Cape May, a National Historic Landmark. The building has been considered so important architecturally that the Historic American Building Survey has created measured architectural plans, which are preserved in the Library of Congress. Cape May Stage launched its capital campaign in 2004, Project Encore, to fully restore the building to its original splendor and install a state-of-the-art auditorium.
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#7 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Cape May City Hall
Cape May NJ
~17.43 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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#8 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Colonial House
Cape May NJ
~17.51 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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The house was built, before the Revolutionary War, by Memucan Hughes, a member of one of the whaler yeomen families. When Israel Hughes, Memucan's first son married Mary Eldridge in 1806, this simple six room structure became their home. The museum gives you a glimpse of Hughes' family life.
Hobbies & Activities category: Manor or country house
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#9 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Emlen Physick Estate
Cape May NJ
~17.92 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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#10 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Us Coast Guard Facilities Engr
1 Munro Dr Cape May NJ - 609-898-6946
~18.61 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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#11 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Crest Pier Community Center
5800 Ocean Avenue Wildwood Crest NJ
~22.69 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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http://www.wildwoodcrest.org/dept_recreation.htm
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#12 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Wildwood Beach
Wildwood NJ
~23.32 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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#13 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Wildwood Convention Center
Wildwood NJ
~23.32 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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The Wildwood Convention Center is located in downtown Wildwood, New Jersey. The Convention Center offers a variety of banquet halls and meeting rooms perfect for any occasion
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#14 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Boardwalk Chapel
Wildwood NJ
~23.41 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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Boardwalk Chapel (most often referred to as "The Boardwalk Chapel") is a summertime Christian Gospel outreach on the two mile boardwalk on the barrier island of The Wildwoods, New Jersey. Unique in that it is sandwiched between a pizzeria on the left and a gift shop/henna tattoo parlor on the right, its wide entrance offers thousands of board walkers the opportunity to move freely in and out of any one of its 77 consecutive evening services held during June, July, and August.
In the early 1940s Rev. Leslie Dunn, pastor of Calvary Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Wildwood, New Jersey, walked up and down the boardwalk of The Wildwoods conducting open-air preaching services. He discovered an empty lot towards the southern end of the boardwalk that was to be sold at a citywide tax auction. After pressing his vision for a pavilion at that location, he was allowed by fellow church members to bid on the property, but for no more than $3000.00. The bidding moved quickly in $50.00 increments up to $2900.00. Rev. Dunn bid $2950.00. After a moment of silence the auctioneer announced that the property was Rev. Dunn's. The Gospel Pavilion, its original name, was built during the waning months of World War II. The nightly services were begun in July 1945, a few weeks before Japan’s surrender in the Pacific.
Since its inception the Chapel has been operated by the Presbytery of New Jersey of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Its hand-drawn logo depicts the Christian cross rising out of an Atlantic Ocean wave.
Over the years, the chapel has become a landmark for tourists visiting Wildwood. In 2005, a Washington Post travel article said "People come to Wildwood for its beaches ... and for the boardwalk, a roughly three-mile-long human circus of noise, junk food and amusement rides. The boardwalk -- part honky-tonk, part family playground -- has a few quirks that give it an endearing quality. The ... Boardwalk Chapel, between a tattoo parlor and a pizza parlor, has been the voice in the carny wilderness for 61 years."
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#15 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Adventure Pier
Spencer Avenue and Boardwalk Wildwood NJ - (609) 522-3900
~23.56 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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Morey's Piers located on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey are three amusement parks and two water parks built on three separate piers: Morey's Surfside Pier, Mariners Landing and Wild Wheels Adventure Pier
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#16 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Seaport Aquarium
3400 Boardwalk Wildwood NJ
~23.82 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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#17 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Mariner's Pier
Wildwood NJ
~23.83 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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#18 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Raging Waters
Wildwood NJ
~23.83 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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#19 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Splash Zone Water Park
Wildwood NJ
~23.83 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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#20 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Powell Convention Center
Ocean City MD
~24.13 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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The Powell Convention Center is located in downtown Ocean City, Maryland. The Convention Center offers a variety of banquet halls and meeting rooms perfect for any occasion.
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#21 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Morey's Piers
Wildwood NJ
~24.18 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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#22 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Ocean Oasis Waterpark and Beach Club
Wildwood NJ
~24.18 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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#23 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Antique Classic Car Museum
Ocean City MD
~26.21 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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#24 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Us Coast Guard
Po Box 1000 Ocean City MD - 410-289-7559
~26.47 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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http://www.uscg.mil
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#25 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Laurel Art Center
817 Main Street Laurel MD - 301-725-7975
~26.61 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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#26 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Ocean City Beach
Ocean City MD
~26.73 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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#27 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum
Ocean City MD
~26.75 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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#28 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Ocean City Boardwalk
Ocean City MD
~26.78 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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#29 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Trimper's Rides
Ocean City MD
~26.83 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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#30 of 30 Things To Do in Rehoboth Beach
Ocean City Museum Society Inc.
Po Box 603 Ocean City MD - 410-289-4991
~26.95 miles from Rehoboth Beach city center
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