The Cape May and Millville Railroad was incorporated on March 9, 1863. Its backers were mostly businessmen from
Cape May County, but also included some directors of the nearby
Millville and Glassboro Railroad. The New Jersey legislature had authorized the Millville and Glassboro to extend to Cape May, but the railroad lacked the resources to do so. The Cape May and Millville continued the work begun by the Millville and Glassboro and completed the line between
Millville, New Jersey, and
Cape May, New Jersey, in August 1863. There was now a continuous line between
Camden, New Jersey, and Cape May. The
West Jersey Railroad, which owned a line between Camden and
Glassboro, New Jersey, acquired the Millville and Glassboro Railroad on April 1, 1868, and leased the Cape May and Millville Railroad on June 1, 1868. The Cape May and Millville was merged into the West Jersey Railroad on September 25, 1879. In the rationalization that followed the creation of the
Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines in 1933, the former Cape May and Millville line was abandoned between Sea Isle Junction and Cape May in favor of the former
Cape May Railroad route. Further abandonments truncated the line to
Manumuskin, New Jersey, by 1951. The remainder forms the southern end of the
Vineland Secondary. == Notes ==