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Cape May County is the southernmost county in New Jersey. It has been a popular tourist destination since colonial times. and the city of Cape May claims to be the nation's oldest seashore...

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Jetty Jockey

2 - 26 : Crikkers

By Jetty Jockey,

In today's update we return to the Delaware Bayshore. This is a rural section of western Middle Township, between Dias Creek ( pronounced by the locals as Dye-az Crick ) and Green Creek (Green Crick). The inhabitants of this area are referred to as "Crikkers" by uppity folks from the islands and other more ""civilized" areas of the county , a term meaning "hick" or "redneck". They are a simple folk; farmers, trappers, fishermen, and tradesmen who spend most of thier workday outdoors . Crikkers would rather...
Jetty Jockey
In today's update we leave Dennis Township and continue south on US Route 9 to view the northern half of Swainton. Swainton is an unincorporated section of northeastern Middle Township. Once just rural farmland, it has in recent years been developed into a pleasant bedroom community. The older structures are along Seashore Road (US Route 9). Newer developments are on tree lined streets that branch out east and west from US Route 9. At the southern end of the tile, County Road 601 ( Avalon Boulevard) heads...
Jetty Jockey
Welcome ! In this installment we'll take be looking at the Seaville tile. Seaville, like Dennisville , is one of the region's "gateway" towns. A good portion of summer vacationers ( we call them "Shoobies" here) from New York and Pennsylvania enter the region from the north via the Garden State Parkway. US Route 9 and State Highway 50 are secondary routes of entry. < CLICK ON PICS FOR A LARGER VIEW > This large tile contains most of Seaville ( actually a part of Upper Township) and northern sections of...
Jetty Jockey

Prelude : Introduction

By Jetty Jockey,

It has been about 5 years since I've done a city journal, so I'm relearning as I go. I've attempted a Cape May journal twice before . The first was Cape May NJ : A Look Ahead ( c. 2003). My mayoral skills weren't quite up to the challenge, and after a 6 month run, the region fairly ran itself into ruin. This was before I learned how to edit the region config file , so I took what they gave me . Poor planning and overambitious growth turned it into a mayor's nightmare. The second journal , Cape May NJ, a...
Jetty Jockey
Time for another reality check, this time looking at Middle Township and Seven Mile Beach Island. < CLICK ON PICS FOR LARGER IMAGE > Satellite view . Sim version, western Middle Township Eastern Middle and Seven Mile Beach Island. REPLIES : Hmm, do not like the eating muskrat business Everything else looks really great, though. Love how organic the layout is. I haven't sampled it yet. I hear it's an acquired taste. Mostly, muskrat are trapped for thier pelts. From an ecological view, I guess it's a good...
Jetty Jockey
In today's update, we continue south down Delsea Drive to the Sluice Creek tile. There are many rural areas in Cape May County where there is no town, per se, so I'm getting the names of these areas from nearby landmarks (creeks, beaches, or proximity to some other town). This is one of these areas. Sluice Creek is a southern branch of Dennis Creek and in this part of the county forms the boundary between Dennis Township and Middle Township to the south. It is a tidal creek with many shallow mud flats...
Jetty Jockey
In today's installment we will be visiting Dennis Township, at the northern end of the map The first stop is the Mount Pleasant tile. I thought the name was a bit out of place for an area which is one of the flattest and lowest parts of New Jersey, so I did some research. When the glaciers receded at the end of the last ice age, it left behind a 160 foot high ridge of sand and gravel east of where the town of Woodbine now stands. While hardly a mountain by any stretch of the imagination, to the first...
Jetty Jockey
Today's update will feature the ongoing terraforming process in northwestern Middle Township. I've applied lessons learned and have gone back and touched up a few tiles. I've also completed the Reed's Beach tile and a good portion of the terraforming north towards Goshen Creek. The Goshen tile is nearly complete, and if you look closely, you can see the beginnings of the road network . ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ For a better...
Jetty Jockey
Hello ! In today's update we will be looking at southeastern sections of Middle Township, namely the area around Whitesboro and Burleigh, the marshland on either side of the North Wildwood causeway , and Hereford Inlet. We'll begin on the Whitesboro tile, which includes southern parts of Burleigh. Garden Lake is a former sand and gravel excavation since filled with groundwater. I suspect the fill was used to construct the Garden State Parkway overpass at Exit 6 . Aaron Denny Creek runs south of the North...
Jetty Jockey
Welcome to the next segment of my city journal. After eighteen months of terraforming, I'm ready to begin the next phase of the project : populating the region and recreating what's here . I've settled on a natural growth process that suprisingly mirrors the historical growth of the region. I'll be developing the mainland sections first. Historically, the mainland areas were developed first due to the presence of fresh water needed for settlement and development. In the Sim version, I'm starting on the...
Jetty Jockey
<DISCLAIMER > Lots of pics, so please be patient waiting for them to load In today's update, we visit southwestern Middle Township to look at the towns of Green Creek and Del Haven. Green Creek (pronounced by the locals as Green Crick) is a small rural town located between the headwaters of Green Creek ( top, right) and Fishing Creek ( bottom, left and right corners). It is the southernmost of the "Crikker" towns . ( See update 2-26, "Crikkers" for explanation). The area was settled in the mid 1700s , and...
Jetty Jockey
In today's update, we cross over Dennis Creek to take a look at the village of South Dennis. As you can see, there's been a bit of development on the southern bank of Dennis Creek. Most of the development is to the west of the tile. A reason for this is the heavily wooded areas north of Dennisville Road (northern East-West road) is part of the Dennis Creek Wildlife Management area. Once east of the village, the areas south of NJ 83 ( southern East West Road) is part of the Beaver Swamp Wildlife Management...
Jetty Jockey
Hello again! I was so encouraged my the success of my last mosaic to attempt another. This one encompasses an area of 120 square miles. As you can see, I've done more terraforming up north, so expect another update featuring the mainland areas of Dennis Township sometime in the near future. I hope you've enjoyed the update, and as always comments, questions and suggestions are welcome and encouraged. Replies haydon1996 : Thank you and welcome ! escilnavia : Thanks for stopping by! Actually, this journal...
Jetty Jockey
Today's update will feature the bayfront coast from Del Haven southwards to Town Bank , northwestern parts of Lower Township and southwestern Middle Township. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ First stop is Green Creek. Not really a whole lot of terraforrming done here, just a small pond and the headwaters of Fishing Creek ( lower left), This was one of the areas I used to test the map scale, so it actually has a bit of...
Jetty Jockey

Challenges

By Jetty Jockey,

Ok, the real reason I posted is it's extremely frustrating to post 3 weeks worth of work and have it viewable for less than a day because of a bugged journal posting shortly after my post. In case you may have missed the Five Mile Beach Island post (page 7), it's a good time to go back and give it a look. While I have your attention, I'd like some ideas on few things that I've been mulling over in regard to development of this journal, once terraforming is complete. The region has 80,000 year-round...
Jetty Jockey
In today's update we will be looking at Seven Mile Beach Island. Seven Mile Beach Island, as the name implies, stretches seven miles between Hereford Inlet in the south to Townsend's Inlet to the north. As with all the barrier islands, it is seperated from the mainland by a one to 2 mile wide swath of marshland and an extensive network of creeks and ponds. This island is home to the upscale resort communities of Stone Harbor and Avalon. At the southern end of the island is the Stone Harbor tile. Stone...
Jetty Jockey

Road Work

By Jetty Jockey,

Cape May County's transportation network has changed relatively little in the 300 plus years of its existance. Before the coming of the Europeans, the Lenni Lenape natives had built an extensive network of trails across southern New Jersey. These were used for their seasonal migrations to the coast in early summer , where they would hunt, fish and collect shells for making wampum. These trails, generally two to three feet across, traversed the easiest paths, avoiding swamps, creeks and other difficult...
Jetty Jockey
Hello ! In today's entry, I continue the terraforming process in eastern Middle Township, notably the area around Cape May Court House and the western shores of Jenkins Sound and Great Sound. The first stop is the Cape May Court House tile. When settled in the late 17th century, it was originally named Romney Marsh, for an area in southeasten England that it resembled. The name was later changed to Middleton , and then with the building of the county courthouse in 1764, to Cape May Court House. Most of the...
Jetty Jockey
Hello again ! It's been 3 weeks since my last post, and I've been hard at work on the region. If it seems longer than that, my journal had the misfortune of being posted behind a bugged journal and was blocked from showing up in the CJ list. In case you may have missed the Cape Island update, go back and take a look. Today's update features Five Mile Beach Island, more commonly known as the Wildwoods. Prior to 1921, it was actually two seperate islands. Two Mile Beach Island ran northward from Cold...
Jetty Jockey
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Welcome ! In today's entry, we return to the northern Bayshore . We'll be looking at northwestern Middle Township and extreme southwestern Dennis Township ( for township boundaries, see map in Chapter 1) . Today's update also features something new : Some real life pics that complement the game screenshots. I hope you enjoy it ! ....
Jetty Jockey
Today we continue our look at Dennisville, featuring the villages of North Dennis and South Dennis. Development is now complete from NJ 47 northward to the Woodbine city line. As I've said before, this journal is a learning process, and I've today I've learned an important lesson. Photobucket automatically resizes my pics to 800 x 600 , so I've been able to leave my screenshots as-is instead of resizing them to a smaller version before posting them . Now if you click on the pics, a larger, more detailed...
Jetty Jockey

Southeast

By Jetty Jockey,

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hello again and Happy New Year !I'd like to apologize for the delay in getting this update in, but the holidays are an insanely busy time for me. Between 60 hour work weeks and family obligations, I had little time ( or energy for that matter) to spend on my journal. Excuses aside, I'd like to pick up where I left off. Today's update features the southeastern mainland section of the region,...
Jetty Jockey
Hello again, The terraforming process is nearly complete for the northern bayshore all the way up to the northwestern corner of the map in Woodbine. In today's installment we'll be looking at the area around Dennis Creek. Dennis Creek seperates the Cape May peninsula from mainland New Jersey. It has its source in the Great Cedar Swamp ( incomplete, on Mount Pleasant tile and off map northeastward). It is a fresh water creek east of Dennisville, and becomes tidal a bit east of the Route 47 bridge. From...
Jetty Jockey

Storm Warning !

By Jetty Jockey,

Hello ! As shown in previous updates, the terrain of Cape May County has been sculpted by the sea, with various storms and near misses from hurricanes altering the landscape over the years. Here we go again .... As I write this, a hurricane watch has been issued for Cape May County and a mandantory evacuation order issued for the region due to the approach of Hurricane Irene. Irene is expected to bring 100+ mph winds and storm surge flooding to the region. *Image courtesy of National Hurricane Center The...
Jetty Jockey
In today's update , we move east from Woodbine to the Mount Pleasant section of Dennis Township Mount Pleasant is a sparsely populated section of Dennis Township located at the intersection of County Roads 610 ( Dennisville - Petersburg Road) and 550 ( Woodbine - Ocean View Road) As I brought up in the terraforming section of the journal, when the glaciers receded at the end of the Ice Age they left behind a 150 foot high ridge of sand and gravel east of where Woodbine now sits. Over the years, most of...
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