Cape May County · ~21,705 residents
21,705
Residents
1
Legislative district
3
Legislators
0
Abortion facilities
Lower Township is the largest municipality in Cape May County, at the very southern tip of New Jersey where the Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic.
Between 1849 and 1852 Harriet Tubman spent her summers in Cape May working as a cook and domestic in the hotels, and used the wages to pay for her returns to Maryland. Her friend Franklin Sanborn recorded it: "She returned to the states, and as usual earned money by working in hotels and families as a cook. From Cape May, in the fall of 1852, she went back once more to Maryland, and brought away nine more fugitives." This county was also a landing point — the first foothold in a free state for people who crossed the Delaware Bay at night in small boats, guided by a signal of two lanterns answered from the shore.
Between 1849 and 1852 Harriet Tubman spent her summers working as a cook and domestic in the grand hotels of Cape May, and used the wages to fund her returns to Maryland's Eastern Shore. Her friend Franklin Sanborn recorded it plainly: 'She returned to the states, and as usual earned money by working in hotels and families as a cook. From Cape May, in the fall of 1852, she went back once more to Maryland, and brought away nine more fugitives.' Cape May was also a landing point — the first foothold in a free state for people crossing the Delaware Bay by night in small boats.
Source: Harriet Tubman Museum, Cape May; Franklin Sanborn's account
Abortion reporting to the CDC is voluntary, and New Jersey is one of four jurisdictions that declines. Its own Department of Health publishes no count of induced terminations, by county or statewide. The state that wrote abortion access into its statutes does not record how often it happens.
There is no figure for Lower, or for Cape May County, because there is no figure for anywhere in New Jersey. The best available independent estimate is 61,200 abortions provided by clinicians statewide in 2025.
Sources: CDC, Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2022 (MMWR Surveillance Summaries) · Guttmacher Institute, Monthly Abortion Provision Study
No abortion facility in our directory operates inside Lower Township. The nearest recorded one is in Absecon, in Atlantic County.
No abortion facility in our directory is located inside Lower Township.
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Lower Township is in Legislative District 1, which it shares with Vineland. Its three legislators and their recorded FRCA votes are below.
Lower Township is in District 1. New Jersey elects one senator and two assembly members from each district, so 3 people represent this municipality in Trenton.
Senate · District 1 · Republican
Assembly · District 1 · Republican
Assembly · District 1 · Republican
Congregations we know of in Lower Township that have taken a public abolitionist position — not simply a pro-life one.
We are not aware of a publicly abolitionist church in Lower Township. We read every New Jersey congregation in the directory we work from — 106 of them — and found one in the whole state, in Glassboro. Abolitionists Rising, the movement's own national organisation, lists the same single church on its New Jersey page and no others. That is not a gap in the research. It is the situation.
If your church has taken a public position on abolition — from the pulpit, in a resolution, or in its own published words — tell us and we will verify it and list it here.
She worked summers in Cape May hotels between 1849 and 1852 as a cook and domestic, and used the money to fund her rescue missions back to Maryland. From Cape May in the autumn of 1852 she returned to Maryland and brought away nine more people.
Lower Township is in Legislative District 1, which it shares with Vineland. The district elects one senator and two assembly members; all three are listed on this page.
New Jersey publishes no count at any geography and does not report to the CDC. Guttmacher estimates about 61,200 in 2025.
