Description
The legend of the Cape May Diamonds tells of a sleeping bear who guards the diamonds. The diamonds were first found by the Dutch explorer Cornelius Jacobson Mey.
For thousands of years, quartz fragments have traveled down the Delaware River (once called the Wehittck by the Lenape Indians), washing ashore near a place settled by the Dutch explorer Cornelius Jacobson Mey, where they are gathered as treasures and known as Cape May Diamonds.