Whitesboro Map
Whitesboro-Burleigh is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Middle Township, in Cape May County, New Jersey. It is part of the Ocean neighborhood Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 1,836.
Whitesboro is an unincorporated community in Middle Township, Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. It is the principal African American center of the township.
Whitesboro was founded by an African-American Equitable Industrial Association about 1901 by a group of prominent Black American investors that included Paul Laurence Dunbar and educator Booker T. Washington. The community was named for George Henry White, the leading investor, a Washington lawyer who had previously served as a Republican congressman representing North Carolina’s second legislative district. White and his fellow entrepreneurs wanted to create a self-reliant community for blacks, without the discrimination faced the southern states. Shares in the planned community were sold to African Americans from North and South Carolina and Virginia.
Nearby cities include Sea Isle neighborhood, Woodbine, Strathmere, Port Norris, Corbin neighborhood.