Whitesboro is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Middle Township in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
[11] Whitesboro was founded as a planned residential community for African Americans and has the majority of the township's black population.
He was an attorney who had moved to Philadelphia after serving as the last black Republican congressman representing North Carolina's 2nd congressional district.
Shares in the planned community were sold to African Americans from North and South Carolina and Virginia.
[12] In 2006, the Johnson Family Historical Trust discovered the value of its original deed to Whitesboro property from the George H. White Realty Company.
[citation needed] There are more than 50 known and appraised artifacts from the original investors of the town that will be featured in Whitesboro in upcoming years.
In the era of de jure educational segregation in the United States, a school for black children was maintained in Whitesboro for grades 1-8.