A few words about NEW JERSEY........ 

New Jersey is a peninsula. It has a West Coast. 
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. 

Highlands, New Jersey has the highest elevation along the entire eastern 
seaboard, from Maineto Florida. 
New Jersey has the highest percentage of 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 Diner's 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 square mile 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, 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), 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 {sphere) in the world, located 
just 
off the Garden State Parkway in Union. 
New Jersey was home to the Boy Scouts of America with its 
headquarters formerly located in New Brunswick. 
Two-thirds of the world's eggplants and three quarters of the 
cranberry's 
are grown in New Jersey. 
New Jersey had the first Medical Center, Jersey City. 
The Pulaski Sky Way was the first sky way highway, it runs from Jersey 
City 
to Newark. 
The first tunnel under the Hudson River is in Jersey City. (Holland 
Tunnel) 
The invention and manufacturing of the Colt Revolver was in Peterson. 
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. 
New Jersey is the home to both of NEW YORK'S Pro Football Teams. The 
first 
radio station and broadcast was in Paterson. 
The State is unofficially divided into two parts..... This side and 
that 
side of the Parkway (Driscoll) bridge in South Amboy, over the 
Raritan 
River. 
Jack Nicholson, Frankie Valli, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Jason 
Alexander, 
Queen Latifa, Shaq ONeil, Olympia Dukakis, Judy Blume, Aaron Burr, 
Joan 
Robertson, Joseph Czesnik, Dr. Carl Gedon, John Milewski, Ken Kross, 
Dionne 
Warwick, Sarah Vaughn, Marilynn McCoo, Flip Wilson, Alexander Hamilton, 
Whitney Houston, Eddie Money, Frank Sinatra, Eileen Donnely, Grover 
Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman, Jerry Lewis, Richard 
Wojewodzki, 
Joyce Kilmer Bruce Willis, Caesar Romero, Lou Costello, Nick Adams, 
Nathan 
Lane, Sandra Dee, Danny DaVito, Joe Piscopo, Richard Conti, Joe 
Pesci, 
Robert Blake, John Forsyth, Meryl Streep, Loretta Swit, Norman Lloyd, 
Jerry 
Herman, Gorden McCrae, Kevin Spacey, John Travolta, Phyllis Newman, and 
all 
New Jersey natives. 
And last but not least.... 
New Jersey (especially Chatham) produces the most beautiful women in the world! 
(With the biggest hair!) 

DAVE D