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Quick answers
How Marmora began
When was Marmora founded?
1890
The Marmora post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name.
2020 census: 2,413136 years
Founding year: the first Marmora post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
What stands out about Marmora’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Marmora yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Marmora is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Upper Township, in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is part of the Ocean City Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its postal ZIP Code is 08223. As of the 2020 census, Marmora had a population of 2,413. A post office was established in 1890, with James Corson as the first postmaster.
Its first post office opened in 1890.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Marmora in 1897
Passages that mention Marmora, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The history of Cape May County, New Jersey1897 · page 389Read the page →
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a newly laid-out town on the north end of Seven-]\Iile Beach, and in September. 1889. one established at the new town of Wildwood on the centre portion of Five-]\Hle Beach. In June, 1890, the ofjfice at Marmora was opened. On September 5. 1S88, the people voted upon the question of "local option," or for and against the granting license for the sale of liquor as a beverage. The following townships and boroughs voted for granting licenses: Sea
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
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