Comedians love to poke fun at New Jersey. Especially New Yorkers! We're right next door and easy prey. Well, we laugh at all the jokes, too, and make a few of our own.
But, here are a few more interesting facts about old NJ to add to the list I posted last week.
New Jersey has the most stringent testing along our coastline for water quality control than any other seaboard state in the entire country.
New Jersey is a leading technology & industrial state and is the largest chemical producing state in the nation when you include pharmaceuticals.
Jersey tomatoes are known the world over as being the best you can buy.
New Jersey is the world leader in blueberry and cranberry production (and here you thought Massachusetts ?)
Here's to New Jersey - the toast of the country! In 1642, the first brewery in America, opened in Hoboken.
New Jersey rocks! The famous Les Paul invented the first solid body electric guitar in Mahwah, in 1940.
New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the US , located in Elizabeth . Nearly 80 percent of what our nation imports comes through Elizabeth Seaport first.
New Jersey is home to one of the nation's busiest airports (in Newark ), Liberty International.
George Washington slept here. Several important Revolutionary War battles were fought on New Jersey soil, led by General George Washington.
The light bulb, phonograph (record player), and motion picture projector, were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park , NJ, laboratory.
We also boast the first town ever lit by incandescent bulbs.
The first seaplane was built in Keyport , NJ
The first airmail (to Chicago ) was started from Keyport, NJ.
The first phonograph records were made in Camden, NJ.
New Jersey was home to the Miss America Pageant held in Atlantic City
The game Monopoly, played all over the world, named the streets on its playing board after the actual streets in Atlantic City
And, Atlantic City has the first and longest boardwalk in the world, not to mention the creation of salt water taffy, made there.
New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment area outside of the Middle East countries.
The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey , in the Watchung Mountains.
New Jersey has the tallest water-tower in the world. ( Union , NJ!!!)
New Jersey had the first medical center, in Jersey City
The Pulaski SkyWay, from Jersey City to Newark , was the first skyway highway.
NJ built the first tunnel under a river, the Hudson(Holland Tunnel).
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