Here is yet another image gleaned from the Stone Harbor Museum archives. While we do not know what year this photo was taken, we can surmise it is probably from the time of 1911-1915. We do however know that the scene depicted here shows the starting point for one of the very popular holiday marathon runs conducted in the summer months from Cape May Court House to Stone Harbor. Some of us at the museum believe that the road shown here could very well be Route 9 on the mainland.
Often there are images such as this primary photo that contain details that are not so readily apparent without some magnification. Discovering such details is one of the joys of exploring the medium of photographs. Unexpected surprises can sometimes just suddenly become apparent and seemingly jump out at you. You just never know what you might find. Please know that contained within this photo there are 3 such details that I wish to bring to your attention at this time. To begin, while we do know this photo was taken on the 4th of July, the only other information we seem to have is what essentially appears on the large promotional sign that we see is hanging over the gravel roadway in Cape May Court House. 
This second image is enhanced and cropped from the original photo showing the actual sign that states the following in very bold letters: “START OF THE OCEAN PARKWAY / MARATHON July 4 – 3 PM”.
This next image shows the automobile magnified and obviously decorated for the holiday. Now we can easily see this vintage automobile was adorned with several American Flags along with some red, white and blue bunting draped around it. Upon enhancing some other areas to the left and the right of the automobile, I have been able to identify several more examples of American Flags and neighborhood decorations and more bunting on display along the route for this occasion.
I have cropped yet another small portion of this photo in order to feature something else that I believe is most interesting. Depicted here is something that few of us have ever been accustomed to seeing in our lives as well as in our towns or neighborhoods. Hopefully you can distinguish and even recognize the object depicted here. It is typical of its era (latter 1800s) and was still a common part of town and city life in the early 1900s. Do you know what that object is and its intended purpose? It is basically from the pre-automobile time when horses needed water and horse-drawn carriages, carts and buggies traveled the roads and were quite commonplace. Such cast-iron water troughs for horses as shown here were generally scattered throughout a town for both people and horses to use when traveling and passing through.
As for today, a few communities have actually retained and preserved such horse water troughs as vestiges from the past and have even placed them in prominent, highly trafficked business areas such as in front of a town hall for example on a main street. Repurposed sometimes for growing flowers or for other decorative purposes, such relics still survive from an earlier time.
I think it is safe to conclude that more photos like these give us a bit of additional insight as well as information about life in and around Stone Harbor many years ago. I appreciate and value your ongoing viewership and your support of these historical accounts that have been posted on both our Facebook/Meta group website as well as on the Stone Harbor Museum webpage.