Museums in the Wildwoods

  • Wildwood Historical Society & George Boyer Museum

    3907 Pacific Ave Wildwood, N.J. 08260

    609-523-0277

  • Doo Wop Experience Museum

    4500 Ocean Ave. Wildwood, N.J. 08260

    609-551-2289

  • Hereford Inlet Lighthouse

    111 N. Central Ave. North Wildwood N.J 08260

    609-600-1561

  • Wildwood Crest Historical Society

    Currently in storage, but expected to open someday! They are active online.

Historic sites on the island

  • Holly Beach Park

    Home of island’s first school, maypole, bell and a fishermen’s memorial. The Memorial is for all fishermen of Cape May County who lost their lives at sea. Visit School House and read sign about park and schools. School House will be open during special events. Park becomes “Winter Wonderland“ in December with light show. The park is at 100 E block between Burk and Andrew Aves and between N.J. and Pacific Ave.

  • Turtle Gut Inlet

    Site of the only Revolutionary battle fought in Cape May County, the first casualty of that war in the county, and the first Privateer battle of the Revolutionary War. By the 1920s, inlet was filled in to expand Wildwood Crest. The history is now memorialized at a park at Miami and New Jersey Aves in Wildwood Crest. We erected a sign at the park to tell its history.

  • Vietnam Veterans Remembrance Wall

    The Wildwoods’ Vietnam Veterans Remembrance Wall, the only permanent Vietnam Memorial replica in the Northeast, is an exact, half-size, black granite replica of the official Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. It has the 58,913 names of our country’s fallen heroes from the Vietnam War etched on its panels and stretches for 240 feet along the existing sidewalks of Fox Park. 4500 Ocean Ave.

  • World War I Monument

    The World War I monument in Wildwood features the helmeted head and arms of a doughboy, holding the hilt of a sword, looking over the top a tall, rectangular, granite pillar. The monument is “Wildwood’s Tribute to the glory of her sons, 1917-1918.” Around the four sides of the flat, rectangular, marble base are the names of six significant WWI battles abroad. The monument was dedicated on May 26, 1927 by Senator William Bright. Since then, the city has added to the memorial with plaques honoring those who served in WWII and Korea as well as WWI and with a walk with tribute plaques. The monument was rededicated as the Memory Lane War Memorial. Atlantic Avenue between Burk and Montgomery.