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Stone Harbor is a borough in Cape May County occupying the southern portion of Seven Mile Island, which it shares with its northern neighbor, Avalon.

Stone Harbor was incorporated as a borough from portions of Middle Township in 1914, following a referendum held on April 28, 1914, and it gained a portion of Avalon on December 27, 1941.

The borough is said to be named for an English sea captain named Stone who sought shelter from a storm in the area.

Development began in the late 19th century as a resort along the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad marketed to wealthy Philadelphians; the Stone Harbor Improvement Company purchased the area in 1891 and opened its first hotel on July 4, 1892.

The borough's motto is 'The Seashore at its Best.'

The 2020 United States census counted only 796 year-round residents in Stone Harbor, yet its summer population swells to more than 20,000.

The 2010 census counted 441 households but 3,247 housing units in the borough, reflecting how heavily its housing stock consists of seasonal vacation homes.

Stone Harbor is one of New Jersey's priciest real estate markets: in 2017 its ZIP Code 08247 was the third-most expensive in the state by median home sale price, and Forbes ranked it among the most expensive ZIP codes in the United States.

The Wetlands Institute, founded in 1969 on a 35-acre salt marsh site in Stone Harbor, is a nationally known center for wetlands research and education and runs a long-running conservation program for diamondback terrapins, whose hatchlings are released into the marsh each year with help from Stone Harbor Elementary School students.

Stone Harbor Point, at the borough's southern end, is a protected coastal preserve of beaches, dunes, tidal flats and maritime forest recognized as one of New Jersey's most significant habitats for migratory shorebirds and horseshoe crabs.