Jersey First!

New Jersey is known for being the place where many things happened for the first time, so much so that it's motto, and marketing strategy should be centered around the slogan -
JERSEY FIRST!

First time the term "Birdie" was used in the game of golf was at Atlantic City Country Club in 1905. It is also where the term "Eagle" was coined and used for the first time.

The first golf tee was invited by a black man in North Jersey.

Atlantic City Airport - Bader Field, was the first place that was called an "Airport."

Cape May was the first national Seaside Resort.


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First AIR VOYAGE in America, made in balloon from Philadelphia to Deptford, 1793.

First BASEBALL game played under organized rules, Hoboken, 1846.

First BOARDWALK laid on sand, Atlantic City, 1870.

First FIRST AID KITS made in New Brunswick, 1890.

First FM STATION went on air at Alpine, 1937.

First FOOTBALL game played by college teams; Princeton-Rutgers, 1869.

First LOCOMOTIVE in America, steam-powered, made at Hoboken, 1825.

First ELECTRIC LIGHT, made practical by Thomas Edison, Menlo Park, 1879.

First MISS AMERICA chosen, Atlantic City, 1921.

First MOVIES made and shown in West Orange, 1889.

First MOVIE STUDIO in the world, West Orange, 1893.

First PHONOGRAPH invented by Edison at Menlo Park, 1877.

First REVOLVER, or repeating pistol, Paterson, 1836.

First ROCKET ENGINES made at Pompton Plains, early 1940s.

First SMOKE DETECTOR, perfected in Jersey City, 1900.

First CONDENSED SOUP (add water, heat and serve), Camden, 1897.

First STEAMBOAT in America ran from Burlington to Philadelphia, 1786.

First SUBMARINE in America, Paterson, 1878.

First TRANSISTOR made by three-man science team, Murray Hill, 1948.

First TV for home use made in Upper Montclair, 1933.


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More New Jersey Firsts, Facts, and Trivia
"I'm From New Jersey" is the only state song that is adaptable to any municipality with a two or three syllable name.

New Jersey has the highest population density in the U.S. An average 1,030 people per sq. mi., which is 13 times the national average.

New Jersey has the highest percent urban population in the U.S. with about 90% of the people living in an urban area.

In November of 1914, the New York Tribune, cooperating with Mr. Bertram Chapman Mayo (founder of Beachwood) issued an "Extra" announcing: "Subscribe to the New York Tribune and secure a lot at Beautiful Beachwood. Act at once, secure your lot in this Summer Paradise now!" This was the greatest premium offered by a newspaper - nothing equal to it was ever attempted in the United States.

New Jersey is the only state where all its counties are classified as metropolitan areas.

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 U.S.

Picturesque Cape May holds the distinction of being the oldest seashore resort in the United States and one of the most unique.

In order to meet the increasing demand for his wire rope John Roebling opened a factory in Trenton, New Jersey in 1848. John Roebling, along with his two sons, Washington and Ferdinand, built a suspension bridge across the gorge of the Niagara River. They then built the Brooklyn Bridge plus many other suspension bridges in the United States.

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. mile radius.

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

Passaic river was the site to 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 U.S. located in Elizabeth.

Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, Redman, Das EFX, Naughty by Nature, Sugar Hill Gang, Lords of the Underground, Jason Alexander, Queen Latifa, Shaq, Judy Blume, Arron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, Whitney Houston, Eddie Money, Frank Sinatra, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman, all New Jersey natives.

The light bulb, phonograph (record player), motion picture projector were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park laboratory.

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

Fort Dix is named for Major General John Adams Dix, a veteran of the War of 1812 and the Civil War. During his distinguished public career, he was a United States Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, Minister to France and Governor of New York.

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 in the world.

The first tin-foil phonograph developed by Thomas Edison was crude, but it proved his point-- that sound could be recorded and played back. Thomas Edison had phonograph demonstrations and became world-renowned as the "Wizard of Menlo Park" for this invention.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

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 1869. Rutgers College played Princeton. Rutgers won.

The first Drive-In Movie theatre was opened in Camden.

New Jersey has 108 toxic waste dumps. Which is the most in any one state in the nation.

New Jersey has a spoon museum featuring over 5,400 spoons from every state and almost every country.

Origin of name: From the Channel Isle of Jersey.

Tourism is the second-largest industry in New Jersey.

In 1977, New Jersey voters approved legislation allowing legalized casino gambling in Atlantic City.

New Jersey has 21 counties.

Although the Borough of Ship Bottom was incorporated in 1925, the name dates back to a shipwreck that occurred in March 1817, when Captain Stephen Willets of Tuckerton rescued a young woman from the hull of a ship overturned in the shoals. The rescue became known as "Ship Bottom."