New Jersey

New Jersey: State Facts

State Name: State of New Jersey

Statehood: Admitted to the Union, 18 December 1887

State Motto: Liberty and Prosperity (1928)

State Bird: Eastern Goldfinch State Tree: Red Oak State Insect: Honeybee State Animal: Horse State Dinosaur: Hadrosaurus

Hadrosaurus Picture

New Jersey Fun Facts Has the highest point along the Eastern

seaboard Great Falls, Paterson

Has more race horses than Kentucky More Cubans live in Jersey City than in

Havana, Cuba Home of the first electric guitar

Les Paul, Mawah, 1940 Home of the most toxic waste dumps (108) Tallest water tower in the World (Union, NJ)

New Jersey: Famous People

Bruce Willis Joe Pesci Danny DeVito Jon Bon Jovi Frank Sinatra Paul Simon Bruce

Springsteen John Travolta

Kevin Spacey Tom Cruise Martha Stewart Jack Nicholson Susan Sarandon Meryl Streep Aaron Burr

New Jersey Devil Mythical Creature

New Jersey Pinelands/Pine Barons

Haunted New Jersey for past 280 years

Over 2,000 have claimed to see New Jersey Devil

New Jersey Devil

Born in: Leeds Point, Burlington, Estelville

Time Period: Around Revolution Era

Different versions of how the New Jersey devil came into existence

http://www.weirdnj.com/stories/_unexplained05.asp

New Jersey Devil “It was about three feet and half high, with

a head like a collie dog and a face like a horse. It had a long neck, wings about two feet long, and its back legs were like those of a crane, and it had horse's hooves. It walked on its back legs and held up two short front legs with paws on them. It didn't use the front legs at all while we were watching. My wife and I were scared, I tell you, but I managed to open the window and say, 'Shoo', and it turned around barked at me, and flew away.”

- South Jersey Sighting, 1909

You Know Your From Jersey When…

You don’t think of fruit when people mention “The Oranges”

During the summer you go “Down the Shore” not “To the Shore”

You live within 20 minutes of at least three different shopping malls

You know that it is the only “New…” state that does not require a “New” to identify itself—Hampshire and York can’t stand on their own.

You’ve never pumped your own gas