The State flag of New Jersey shall be of buff color, having in the
center thereof the arms of the State properly emblazoned
thereon.
Entered Union: Third of the original 13 states to ratify the Constitution, December 18, 1787
Capital: Trenton
Motto: Liberty and prosperity
Flower: Purple violet
Bird: Eastern goldfinch
Tree: Red oak
Song: I'm From New Jersey
A LITTLE HISTORY
The Lenni-Lenape (Delaware) Indians had mostly peaceful relations with European colonists who arrived after the explorers Verrazano in 1524 and Hudson in 1609. The Dutch were first. When the British took New Netherland in 1664 the area between the Delaware and Hudson Rivers was given to Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret. New Jersey was the scene of nearly 100 battles, large and small, during the American Revolution, including Trenton (1776); Princeton (1777); and Monmouth (1778).
FACTS AND TRIVIA ABOUT NEW JERSEY
The Delaware River forms the Pennsylvania-New Jersey border.
Modern paleontology, the science of studying dinosaur fossils, began in 1858
with the discovery of the first nearly-complete skeleton of a dinosaur in
Haddonfield, New Jersey. The Hadrosaurus is the official New Jersey state
dinosaur
The honey bee, apis mellifera, is the New Jersey state bug.
The state sea-shell is the knobbed whelk, (Busycon carica gmelin) because it is
found on all beaches and bays of New Jersey.
Of all the fifty states, the most crowded is New Jersey, which has the most people per square mile.
