Through a grant from the Chosen Freeholders of Cape May County, NJ, Post legionnaire, J. J. Thompson a Vietnam veteran from Delaware, painted a set of four murals to depict the history of the Post’s building and its service to our country. The first mural, completed in 2006 exemplifies the building’s service as a life-saving station from 1895 until 1915, U. S. Coast Guard station from 1915 until 1948, and finally as an American Legion Post from 1948 to the present. In 2007, he completed two murals in the Post’s meeting room one as a tribute to fallen soldiers from the Revolutionary War until the present and the other to depict a life-saving service rescue operation. The last mural, completed in 2008, is in two parts behind the building’s outside boat room doors. When the doors are open, one is treated to a view of the life-saving equipment and personnel that would have been seen inside the building.
