Good Old New Jersey: Interesting Facts
About This Weird State
submitted by DAVEGOESINYA@aol.com
(September 14, 2001)
New Jersey is a peninsula.
New Jersey has the highest population density in the
US, an average 1,030 people per sq. mi., which is 13 times the
national average.
Highland, New Jersey has the highest elevation along the entire eastern
seaboard (from Maine to Florida).
New Jersey has the highest percentage urban population
in the US with about 90% of the people living in an urban area.
New Jersey is the only state where all its counties
are classified as metropolitan areas.
New Jersey has more race horses than Kentucky.
New Jersey has more Cubans in Union City (1 sq. mi.)
than Havana, Cuba.
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 US
New Jersey has 108 toxic waste dumps which is the
most in any one state in the nation.
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. mi. radius.
New Jersey is home to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis
Island.
The Passaic River was the site of 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, and 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 US located in Elizabeth.
The light bulb, phonograph (record player), and motion
picture projector were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park
laboratory.
The first seaplane was built in Keyport.
The first airmail to Chicago was started from Keyport.
The first phonograph records were made in Camden.
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.
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.
New Jersey is home to the Boy Scouts of America with
its headquarters located in New Brunswick.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplants are grown in New
Jersey.
New Jersey had the first Medical Center in Jersey
City.
The Pulaski Sky Way (first sky way highway) from Jersey
City to Newark.
The first tunnel under the Hudson River. (Holland
Tunnel)
The invention and manufacturing of the Colt Revolver
was in Paterson.
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 1889. Rutgers College played Princeton. Rutgers
won.
The first drive-in movie theater was opened in Camden.
Home to pro football teams the New York Giants and
the New York Jets.
The first radio station and broadcast was in Paterson.
Unofficially divided into two parts (this side and
that side of the parkway bridge)
