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As you wander along some Cape May beaches, you might be lucky enough to find quartz pebbles called&nbsp;Cape May diamonds.

The first people came to the area that's now New Jersey at least 12,000 years ago. Thousands of years later, Native American tribes including the Lenape, Munsee (or Minsi), and Unalachtigo lived on the land.

Around 1524 Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano became the first European to arrive in the region. Then Swedish, Finnish, and Dutch colonists built settlements and fought over land until England took control of the region in 1664. New Jersey became one of 13 American colonies ruled by the British.

But eventually the colonists living here wanted independence. This led to the American Revolution, which began in 1775. New Jersey was the site of more Revolutionary War battles than any other state. In 1776 George Washington crossed of the Delaware River into Trenton, New Jersey, where he defeated British forces. The battle was a turning point in the war, as one of the first major military victories in the Revolutionary War. In 1787 New Jersey became the third U.S. state and the first to sign the Bill of Rights.

WHY'S IT CALLED THAT?

The state was named in honor of British colonist George Carteret, who'd previously been governor of the Isle of Jersey, a British island in the English Channel, between the United Kingdom and France.

New Jersey was nicknamed the Garden State in 1876, because of the huge amount of food grown there during that time.

GEOGRAPHY AND LANDFORMS

New Jersey is bordered by Pennsylvania and New York in the north, Pennsylvania in the west, Delaware and Delaware Bay in the south, the Atlantic Ocean in west, and Long Island (a part of New York) in the east. It can be divided into four different geographical regions.

The Atlantic Coastal Plain, which features low hills, pine forests, and salt marshes, sweeps across the southern three-fifths of the state. This area includes the Barrier Islands, which have sandy beaches.

Northeast of the Coastal Plain is the 20-mile-wide Piedmont, where the Hudson, Passaic, Remapo, and Raritan rivers cross. This region has rolling hills and narrow valleys, and it's where most of the state's major cities are located.

Toward the west is the New England Upland, also called the Highlands. This area has flat-topped rock ridges and many lakes.

The Appalachian Ridge and Valley is a mountainous region in New Jersey's northwest corner. It includes the Kittatinny Mountains and the Delaware Water Gap, an opening created when the Delaware River cut through the Appalachian mountains millions of years ago.

New Jersey's mammals include black bears, bobcats, red foxes, raccoons, and Tuckahoe masked shrews, which are similar to moles. Red-bellied woodpeckers, chickadees, northern cardinals, and American goldfinches (the state bird) are common birds here. The state is home to reptiles such as spotted turtles, five-lined skinks, and coastal plain milk snakes. Marbled salamanders, red-spotted newts, and New Jersey chorus frogs are among its amphibians.

The state's many trees include sugar maple, American chestnut, flowering dogwood, pitch pine, and American elm. Black-eyed Susans, orange daylilies, Queen Anne's lace, and violets (the state flower) are some of the wildflowers that grow here.

NATURAL RESOURCES

New Jersey has plenty of granite, sand, and gravel for mining; and is a leader in seafood production, particularly clams harvested off the coast.

-New Jersey's celebrities include U.S. president Grover Cleveland (the only President born in New Jersey), astronaut Buzz Aldrin, author Judy Blume, and performer Frank Sinatra.

-Inventor Thomas Edison's early light bulbs, phonographs, and laboratory equipment are on display at Menlo Park Museum in the town where Edison worked.

-At Washington Crossing State Park in Trenton, visitors can see where George Washington and his army crossed the Delaware River and launched a successful attack on the Hessians (soldiers fighting for the British army).

-In the 19th century southern New Jersey remained largely agricultural, while the northern part of the state rapidly industrialized.

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Native American mortars and pestles, duck decoys, license plates, spinning wheels, cabinetmaker's planes, ferry boat signs, medical implements, Edison phonographs, patent models, samplers, the door from Benjamin Franklin's 18th-century print shop, quilts, political memorabilia, currency, leather cutter tools, a 300-pound brush salesman's 1905 portable trunk, ship models, kitchen utensils, light devices, armaments and toys are only a few examples of the items in the collection that document and reflect the changing patterns of life in New Jersey.

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By The Numbers

9 National Parks

5,520,436 Visitors to National Parks

$271,700,000 Economic Benefit from National Park Tourism "

$127,659,920 of Land & Water Conservation Fund Appropriated for Projects (since 1965) "

$5,729,872 in Historic Preservation Grants (since 1969) "

48 Certified Local Governments "

277,270 Hours Donated by Volunteers "

1 National Heritage Area "

5 Wild & Scenic Rivers Managed by NPS "

2 National Trails Administered by NPS "

1,765 National Register of Historic Places Listings "

58 National Historic Landmarks "

11 National Natural Landmarks "

1,641 Places Recorded by Heritage Documentation Programs "

6,837,646 Objects in National Park Museum Collections "

582 Archeological Sites in National Parks "

4 Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plans "

6 Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itineraries "

Print the summary "

These numbers are just a sample of the National Park Service's work. Figures are for the fiscal year that ended 9/30/2020.

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9 National Parks 5,520,436 Visitors to National Parks $271,700,000 Economic Benefit from National Park Tourism " $127,659,920 of Land & Water Conservation Fund Appropriated for Projects (since 1965) " $5,729,872 in Historic Preservation Grants (since 1969) " 48 Certified Local Governments " 277,270 Hours Donated by Volunteers " 1 National