Petersburg, Cape May County, New Jersey

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Petersburg, New Jersey
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Location of Petersburg in Cape May County Inset: Location of county within the state of New Jersey
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Coordinates: 39°15′13″N74°43′36″W / 39.2537259°N 74.7265512°W / 39.2537259; -74.7265512 Coordinates: 39°15′13″N74°43′36″W / 39.2537259°N 74.7265512°W / 39.2537259; -74.7265512
Country Flag of the United States.svg  United States
State Flag of New Jersey.svg  New Jersey
County Cape May
Township Upper
Elevation
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33 ft (10 m)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (Eastern (EDT))
Area code(s) 609, 640
GNIS feature ID879255 [1]

Petersburg is an unincorporated community located within Upper Township in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. [2]

Contents

A post office was established in 1856, with Peter Corson as the first postmaster. [3]

Education

Upper Township School District operates public schools for K-8. Upper Township Primary School and Upper Township Elementary School have Marmora addresses while Upper Township Middle School has a Petersburg address. Ocean City High School of Ocean City School District has high school students from Upper Township.

Countywide schools include Cape May County Technical High School and Cape May County Special Services School District.

Cape May County Library operates the Upper Township Branch in Petersburg. [4]

Notable people

People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Petersburg include:

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References

  1. 1 2 Petersburg, Geographic Names Information System. Accessed June 9, 2016.
  2. ↑ Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed June 9, 2016.
  3. ↑ Stevens, Lewis Townsend (1897). The History of Cape May County, New Jersey: From the Aboriginal Times to the Present Day. Star of the Cape Publishing Co. p. 471.
  4. ↑ "Upper Township". Cape May County Library. Retrieved 2021-05-16.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  5. ↑ McKenna, Brian. Dummy Stephenson, Society for American Baseball Research. Accessed August 12, 2016. "Reuben Crandol Stephenson was born on September 22, 1869, in Upper Township, a large town in Cape May County, New Jersey. During the first half of the nineteenth century the towns of Dennis and Ocean, now known as Ocean City, were separated from Upper because it was so vast. Stephenson is often cited as hailing from Petersburg, but that is merely a post office designation, not typically used as a biographical reference in baseball encyclopedias."
  6. ↑ Adam Williamson - Fall 2005 Men's Soccer, Lehigh Mountain Hawks. Accessed June 9, 2016. "Hometown: Petersburg, N.J.; High School: Ocean City"


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