Wildwood History Articles

Cape May Abandoned Beach Train Tracks Appear At-least once a year after a crazy storm we are lucky enough to be gifted with a view into the past of Cape May, New Jersey. Along Cape May’s Sunset Beach there ...

Exploring the Decaying Wildwood Rails About two years ago we took a video camera to Wildwood Junction and were able to share with you what was left from the station that every train stopped at before they came...

The Wildwood waters was a freezing 37 degrees when the Wildwood Polar Plungers took to the waters in support of New Jersey’s Special Olympics. The annual Polar Plunge drew in over a 900 people who braved the...

Did You Know: Cape May Had Two Military Ships Name After Her? While looking up information at the National Archives in New York City I ran across some very interesting information. Cape May had two military sh...

Every Wildwood Song Written What is your favorite Wildwood song ? We wanted to put together a list of Wildwood songs that we ever heard of. There could be more out there that we do not know about and if that i...

Wildwood’s George the Gorilla Working with the Wildwood Video Archive I sometimes get asked about motels and attractions that are no longer around. Sometimes it’s an easy answer and others I have to dig d...

Hereford Light’s Sister Lighthouses Did you know North Wildwood’s Hereford Inlet Lighthouse Has a sister lighthouse on the other side of the United States? What’s even crazier is that she has two sister...

Where Cape May Got It’s Name Are you anything like us and wondered where Cape May got it’s name? It’s the kind of question that had me digging deep into the history books to find. Just think about this...

Another Wildwood Neon Sign Sent To The Dumpster That's right folks! Sadly yet another Wildwood Neon Sign has made its way into a dumpster. It makes me sad to see such a thing happen. Here at the Wildwood Vide...

The Yacht That Sunk In Wildwood In some of the Wildwood message boards we have been talking about an old schooner yacht that had sunk in Wildwood in late 1963. I had briefly heard stories about the ship but wa...