New Jersey is the only state where all its counties are classified as metropolitan areas with about 90% of the people living in an urban area.
The honeybee, is the New Jersey state bug. The state motto is liberty and prosperity. John Roebling opened a factory in Trenton, New Jersey to meet the rising demand for his wire rope in 1848 and ended up building the suspension bridge across the gorge of the Niagara River, the Brooklyn Bridge and many other suspension bridges in the US. New Jersey has been ranked as the State with the highest cost of living, the most expensive auto insurance, and the highest property taxes in the nation. New Jersey also has the most people per square mile out of any other state in the U.S. For some unexplained reason, people certainly want to live there. No offense meant with that last remark, my aunt and uncle live there, and Daddy and Maddie used to live there too. A lot of people live there. If your from New Jersey and your reading this, please... no offense. The capital of New Jersey is Trenton. Both my Dad and my aunt went to Trenton State College, which is actually located outside of Trenton in Ewing New Jersey. Maddie (my sister) was born in Princeton Hospital, which is only a few miles away from Ewing. Software companies account for nearly 2,700 companies in New Jersey. New Jersey is the birthplace of modern paleontology, the science of studying dinosaur fossils which began in 1858 after the discovery of the first virtually complete dinosaur skeleton in Haddonfield, New Jersey. Now the Hadrosaurus is the official New Jersey state dinosaur. Of all the New Jersey shore cities, Atlantic City one of the most popular tourist attractions in the nation. Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world. It’s the home to the Miss America beauty pageant, and its Boardwalk is the longest in the world, stretching for 6 miles. 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. The tallest water tower in the world, the Union Watersphere, is located in Union. The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey. New Jersey has 108 toxic waste dumps. Which is the most in any one state in the nation. New Jersey has 21 counties. New Jersey has the most dense system of highways and railroads in the U.S. Ashleigh
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Michelle Armistead
5/16/2018 03:50:31 pm
Hi Ashleigh,
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