Welcome to New Jersey!

   For an introduction I'd like to share some interesting facts about NJ state which may interest you on further discovering of this astonishing corner of the USA.

                                               

 

 

 

                                               TOP-15NJ inereresting facts

1 )New Jersey was the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights (Nov. 20,1789)

2) New Jersey is a peninsula.

3) New Jersey has the highest cost of living.

4) The first professional basketball game was played in Trenton, NJ in 1896.

5) New Jersey has more horses per square mile than any other state. 

6)NJ is the  home to the less mysterious but the best Italian hot dogs and
Italian sausage with peppers and onions.

7) New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the U.S. located in Elizabeth

8) New Jersey is home to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island 

9) The game Monopoly, played all over the world, named the streets
on its playing board after the actual streets in the Atlantic City area

10) Jersey tomatoes are known the world over as being the best you can
buy.

11) You haven't lived until you have eaten New Jersey sweet  Corn

12) The telephone was invented in NJ

13)  New Jersey has the tallest water-tower in the world

14) New Jersey's Princeton University was the fourth institution of higher learning in the U.S. and is
consistently ranked #1 or #2 as "America's Best Colleges. 

15) Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world.  

To learn more visit:

http://www.memory-lane.org/NewJerseyFacts.html

http://www.njeha.org/njfacts.html