Avalon travel guide

Avalon is a borough in Cape May County, New Jersey, on Seven Mile Island (although a small portion of Avalon is not on Seven Mile Island). It is part of the Ocean City Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 2,143.
Avalon was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 18, 1892, from portions of Middle Township, based on the results of a referendum held two days earlier. The borough was reincorporated on March 6, 1896, and again on May 4, 1897. Another portion of Middle Township was annexed in 1910. On December 27, 1941, portions of Avalon were ceded to Stone Harbor.
Avalon is famous for being a Jersey Cape seashore resort. Its motto is "Cooler by a mile" which refers to the fact that it juts out into the Atlantic Ocean about a mile farther than other barrier island resorts. (...) more....