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- "I'm
From New Jersey" is the only state song that is
adaptable to any municipality with a two or three syllable
name.
- New Jersey has the highest population density in the
U.S. An average 1,030 people per sq. mi., which is 13 times
the national average.
- New Jersey has the highest percent urban population in
the U.S. with about 90% of the people living in an urban
area.
- In November of 1914, the New York Tribune, cooperating
with Mr. Bertram Chapman Mayo (founder of Beachwood) issued
an "Extra" announcing: "Subscribe to the New York Tribune
and secure a lot at Beautiful Beachwood. Act at once, secure
your lot in this Summer Paradise now!" This was the greatest
premium offered by a newspaper - nothing equal to it was
ever attempted in the United States.
- New Jersey is the only state where all its counties are
classified as metropolitan areas.
- North Jersey is the car theft capital of the world, with
more cars stolen in Newark then any other city. Even the 2
largest cities, NYC and LA put together.
- New Jersey has the most dense system of highways and
railroads in the U.S.
- Picturesque Cape May holds the distinction of being the
oldest seashore resort in the United States and one of the
most unique.
- In order to meet the increasing demand for his wire rope
John Roebling opened a factory in Trenton, New Jersey in
1848. John Roebling, along with his two sons, Washington and
Ferdinand, built a suspension bridge across the gorge of the
Niagara River. They then built the Brooklyn Bridge plus many
other suspension bridges in the United States.
- New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is
sometimes referred to as the diner capital of the world.
- North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in
the world with seven major shopping malls in a 25 sq. mile
radius.
- Passaic river was the site to the first submarine ride
by inventor John P. Holland.
- New Jersey has over 50 resort cities and towns, some of
the nations most famous, Asbury park, Wildwood, Atlantic
City, Seaside heights, Cape May.
- New Jersey is a leading industrial state and is the
largest chemical producing state in the nation.
- New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest
seaport in the U.S. located in Elizabeth.
- Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Redman, Das
EFX, Naughty by Nature, Sugar Hill Gang, Lords of the
Underground, Jason Alexander, Queen Latifa, Shaq, Judy
Blume, Arron Burr, Whitney Houston, Eddie Money, Frank
Sinatra, Grover Cleveland, all New Jersey natives.
- The light bulb, phonograph (record player), motion
picture projector were invented by Thomas Edison in his
Menlo Park laboratory.
- New Jersey is home to the Miss America pageant held in
Atlantic City.
- Atlantic City is where the street names came from for
the game monopoly
- Fort Dix is named for Major General John Adams Dix, a
veteran of the War of 1812 and the Civil War. During his
distinguished public career, he was a United States Senator,
Secretary of the Treasury, Minister to France and Governor
of New York.
- Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world.
- New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment area
outside of the Middle East countries.
- The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey.
- New Jersey has the tallest water tower in the world.
- The first tin-foil phonograph developed by Thomas Edison
was crude, but it proved his point-- that sound could be
recorded and played back. Thomas Edison had phonograph
demonstrations and became world-renowned as the "Wizard of
Menlo Park" for this invention.
- New Jersey is the only state in the nation which offers
child abuse prevention workshops to every public school.
- The first baseball game was played in Hoboken.
- The first intercollegiate football game was played in
New Brunswick, in 1869. Rutgers College played Princeton.
Rutgers won.
- The first Drive-In Movie theatre was opened in Camden.
- New Jersey has 108 toxic waste dumps. Which is the most
in any one state in the nation.
- New Jersey has a spoon museum featuring over 5,400
spoons from every state and almost every country.
- Origin of name: From the Channel Isle of Jersey.
- Tourism is the second-largest industry in New Jersey.
- In 1977, New Jersey voters approved legislation allowing
legalized casino gambling in Atlantic City.
- New Jersey has 21 counties.
- Although the Borough of Ship Bottom was incorporated in
1925, the name dates back to a shipwreck that occurred in
March 1817, when Captain Stephen Willets of Tuckerton
rescued a young woman from the hull of a ship overturned in
the shoals. The rescue became known as "Ship Bottom."
- State motto is liberty and prosperity.
- The honeybee, apis mellifera, is the New Jersey state
bug.
- The state seashell is the knobbed whelk, busycon carica
gmelin, it is found on all beaches and bays of New Jersey.
- Modern paleontology, the science of studying dinosaur
fossils, began in 1858 with the discovery of the first
nearly complete skeleton of a dinosaur in Haddonfield, New
Jersey. The Hadrosaurus is the official New Jersey state
dinosaur.
- Atlantic City's original summer visitors were the
Absegami Indians of the Lenni Lenape tribe.
- Fair Haven is believed to have been seasonally inhabited
by native Indians prior to the coming of European settlers
in the 1660's
- Parsippany has been named Tree City USA for 24
consecutive years.
- New Jersey's state seal was designed by Pierre Eugene du
Simitiere and presented in May 1777.
- Software and software related companies account for
nearly 2,700 companies in New Jersey.
- The Statue, "Soldier At Rest" was dedicated to New
Jersey Civil War veterans on June 28, 1875. It was purchased
by the New Jersey State Legislature for $10,000.
- General Philip Kearny had a New Jersey town and 2
military decorations named after him.
- The Borough of Roosevelt is the only municipality in New
Jersey that is, in its entirety, a registered National
Historic Site
Thanks to:
JAMESON530,Timothy Phillips, William A. Evans
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