Fun Facts
New Jersey
Capital: Trenton
Motto: Liberty and Prosperity
Nickname: Garden State
Flower: Purple Violet
Bird: Eastern Golden Finch
Insect: Honeybee
Tree: Red Oak
Animal: Horse
Folk dance: Square Dance
Fish: Brook Trout
Dinosaur: Hadrosaurus
Maybe you didn’t know…
- New Jersey entered the union third on December 18, 1787
- New Jersey firsts include the first professional basketball games in 1896 and the first college football game in 1869.
- The first drive-in movie theater opened in 1933 outside of Camden.
- No other state has as dense a system of highways and railroads as New Jersey.
- New Jersey is the nation’s most densely populated state.
- 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.
- The light bulb, phonograph (record player), motion picture projector were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park laboratory.
- New Jersey is a leading industrial state and is the largest chemical producing state in the nation.
- New Jersey was home to the Miss America pageant held in Atlantic City until 2005 when it moved to Las Vegas.
- In 1870 the first boardwalk was constructed in Atlantic City.
- Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world.
- There are over 90 nesting bald eagles in the State of New Jersey.
- The are 6 area codes in New Jersey.
- Napoleon’s Bonaparte’s older brother lived in New Jersey and founded Bordentown.
- Sam Patch, who was the first person to jump over Niagara Falls, used to practice by jumping the Paterson Falls.
- The New Jersey Turnpike is 148 miles long.
- There are 23 White Castle Restaurants in New Jersey.
- New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred to as the diner capital of the world.
- The largest builder of miniature golf courses is located in Wildwood, New Jersey.
- Oregon and New Jersey are the only states without self-serve gas stations. Attendants must pump your gas according to state law.
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