Prohibition in Cape May County: Wetter than the Atlantic

by Raymond Rebmann

Overview

With its proximity to Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore, Cape May County was a perfect location for lawbreakers during Prohibition. Rumrunners operating along the Atlantic Seaboard and Delaware Bay teamed up with backwoods bootleggers to make Cape May County a bustling center of the era's illegal liquor business. It seemed as if every house around Otten's Harbor in Wildwood was a speakeasy. Bill McCoy would sail from the Caribbean to Jersey with undiluted rum, gaining praise as the "real McCoy." When authorities eventually shut down Cape May's Rum Row, the production of Jersey Lightning just moved to the Pine Barrens. Local historian Raymond Rebmann reveals how Cape May County turned from a sleepy beach community to a smuggler's paradise in the 1920s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439667705
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	08/19/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Raymond Rebmann is retired after thirty years with the New Jersey Department of Labor and now works as a curator for the Old School House Museum in Dennisville, New Jersey. A reporter and columnist for twenty years for the Cape May County Herald newspaper, he has also authored several books, including Dennis Township (Arcadia), How Can You Give Up that Adorable Puppy (Unlimited Publishing) and Jersey Devil, Cursed Unfortunate (MuseItUp). His children grown and moved on, he lives in a log cabin in the woods of South Seaville with his wife, dog, cat and horse. In addition to writing, beachcombing and gardening, he is a determined home brewer with an experimental bent.