Marmora is an

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in Upper Township, in

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, United States. It is part of the Ocean City

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. It is located at 39.258562, -74.659297.US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990

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. Accessed September 4, 2014. Its postal ZIP code is 08223. Its 1990 population was approximately 4,420 persons. A post office was established in 1890, with James Corson as the first postmaster.

Demographics

Education

Upper Township School District The Upper Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district, serving students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Upper Township, in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. Students from Corbin City, ...

operates public schools for K-8. Upper Township Primary School and Upper Township Elementary School have Marmora addresses while Upper Township Middle School has a Petersburg address.

Ocean City High School Ocean City High School (OCHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Ocean City, in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as the lone secondary school of the Ocean C ...

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has high school students from Upper Township. Countywide schools include

Cape May County Technical High School Cape May County Technical High School, located in Middle Township, which provides vocational and technical education to students in ninth through twelfth grades from Cape May County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Cape May ...

and

Cape May County Special Services School District The Cape May County Special Services School District (CMCSSSD) is a special education public school district headquartered in Middle Township, in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States, whose schools offer educational and therapeutic services ...

. The

Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden The Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden is a Roman Catholic diocese of the Latin Church in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It consists of 62 parishes and about 475,000 Catholics in the Southern Jersey counties of Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberl ...

operates Bishop McHugh Regional School, a Catholic

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, in Ocean View, Dennis Township, which has a Cape May Courthouse postal address. It is the parish school of Marmora/Woodbine Catholic Church and three other churches.

References

External links

Marmora: an interactive aerial perspective from Virtual Earth

Marmora: another aerial perspective from Virtual Earth

The Upper Township Gazette
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