The Official Web Site for The State of New Jersey

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col-xl-10 no-gutters"> <div class="card-columns col-content"> <div class="card spot " style="column-break-inside: avoid;"> <img class="card-img-top " src="/nj/library/about/facts_seal.jpg" alt="" style="object-fit: cover;"> <h3 class="h4 card-header htext-blue bg-on ">State Seal </h3><div class="card-body"><p class="card-text" ><p>Pierre Eugene du Simitiere created New Jersey's State Seal in 1777. It contains five symbols, each of which represents something about New Jersey.</p></p> <a href="#myModal" id="stateSymbolsModal" data-toggle="modal"> <i class="fas fa-external-link-alt" aria-hidden="true"></i>  More Details</a> <div class="modal fade mt-0" id="myModal" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="stateSymbolsModal" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered" role="document"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-header">  <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"> <span aria-hidden="true">×</span> </button> </div> <div class="modal-body"> <ul class="list-group list-group-flush mt-0 pt-0"> <li class="list-group-item"> <h5 class="blue">State Seal</h5> <p class="mb-1">Pierre Eugene du Simitiere created New Jersey's State Seal in 1777. It contains five symbols, each of which represents something about New Jersey.</p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <h5>Helmet and Horse Head </h5> <p class="mb-1">The helmet and the horse's head crest represent New Jersey's independence as a state. They also represent New Jersey's status as one of the first states. In 1787 New Jersey was the third state to sign the U.S. Constitution.</p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <h5>Liberty</h5> <p class="mb-1">The woman holding a staff with a liberty cap on top is Liberty, who represents freedom. In ancient Rome, former Roman slaves saw a liberty cap as a badge of freedom. Liberty caps became popular again during the Revolutionary War.</p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <h5>Ceres</h5> <p class="mb-1">The woman on the right is the Roman goddess of grain, Ceres. She holds an ice-cream-cone-shaped basket, called a cornucopia, filled with the many   fruits and vegetables produced in New Jersey.</p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <h5>Shield</h5> <p class="mb-1">The three plows on the shield symbolize the agricultural tradition of New Jersey.</p> </li> <li class="list-group-item"> <h5>Scroll</h5> <p class="mb-1">The state's motto "Liberty and Prosperity" is written on the scroll. 1776 is the year New Jersey became a state.</p> </li> </ul></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><div class="card spot " style="column-break-inside: avoid;"> <img class="card-img-top " src="/nj/library/about/facts_flag.jpg" alt="" style="object-fit: cover;"> <h3 class="h4 card-header htext-blue bg-on ">State Flag</h3><div class="card-body"><p class="card-text" ><p>The New Jersey State Flag was adopted in 1896. Its official color is buff, which is a yellowish-tan color. The colors of the state flag, buff and dark blue (Jersey blue), were the colors George Washington chose for the flag of New Jersey's army regiments during the Revolutionary War. The state seal is featured on the flag.</p></p></div></div><div class="card spot " style="column-break-inside: avoid;"> <img class="card-img-top " src="/nj/library/about/facts_horse.jpg" alt="" style="object-fit: cover;"> <h3 class="h4 card-header htext-blue bg-on ">State Animal - The Horse</h3><div class="card-body"><p class="card-text" ><p>Michael McCarthy and his fifth grade class at Our Lady of Victories School in Harrington Park and James Sweetman, an eighth grader from Freehold, helped make the horse New Jersey's state animal in 1977. The horse is included on the state seal. Horses were very important to farming. Today, people continue to raise horses in New Jersey. Racehorses are also very popular in New Jersey.</p></p></div></div><div class="card spot " style="column-break-inside: avoid;"> <img class="card-img-top " src="/nj/library/about/facts_bird.jpg" alt="" style="object-fit: cover;"> <h3 class="h4 card-header htext-blue bg-on ">State Bird - The Eastern Goldfinch</h3><div class="card-body"><p class="card-text" ><p>The eastern goldfinch has bright yellow feathers and a black head and wings. Eastern goldfinches love to eat sunflower seeds.</p></p></div></div><div class="card spot " style="column-break-inside: avoid;"> <img class="card-img-top " src="/nj/library/about/facts_honeybee.jpg" alt="" style="object-fit: cover;"> <h3 class="h4 card-header htext-blue bg-on ">State Bug - The Honeybee</h3><div class="card-body"><p class="card-text" ><p>The honeybee makes honey for sweetening our meals and beeswax to smooth things out. Honeybees also pollinate our flowers, including our state flower, the violet.  The honey bee became the state bug when the Legislature enacted the bill, A-671, and Gov. Brendan T. Byrne signed it on June 20, 1974.  They were encouraged by a group of children from the Sunnybrae School in Hamilton Township.  The children went to the State House with a presentation that included a song and a poem.</p></p></div></div><div class="card spot " style="column-break-inside: avoid;"> <img class="card-img-top " src="/nj/library/about/facts_dance.jpg" alt="" style="object-fit: cover;"> <h3 class="h4 card-header htext-blue bg-on ">State Dance - Square Dance</h3><div class="card-body"><p class="card-text" ><p>The Square Dance has been designated as the American Folk Dance of the State of New Jersey by Joint Resolution No. 1, 1983.</p></p></div></div><div class="card spot " style="column-break-inside: avoid;"> <img class="card-img-top " src="/nj/library/about/facts_dino.jpg" alt="" style="object-fit: cover;"> <h3 class="h4 card-header htext-blue bg-on ">State Dinosaur - Hadrosaurus foulkii</h3><div class="card-body"><p class="card-text" ><p>In the summer of 1858, Victorian gentleman and fossil hobbyist William Parker Foulke was vacationing in Haddonfield, New Jersey, when he heard that twenty years previous, workers had found gigantic bones in a local marl pit. Foulke spent the late summer and fall directing a crew of hired diggers shin deep in gray slime. Eventually he found the bones of an animal larger than an elephant with structural features of both a lizard and a bird.</p></p></div></div><div class="card spot " style="column-break-inside: avoid;"> <img class="card-img-top " src="/nj/library/about/State_Dog.jpg" alt="" style="object-fit: cover;"> <h3 class="h4 card-header htext-blue bg-on ">State Dog - The Seeing Eye Dog</h3><div class="card-body"><p class="card-text" ><p>Governor Phil Murphy signed legislation that officially designated the Seeing Eye® dog as the state dog of New Jersey. All Seeing Eye dogs are born and trained in New Jersey before they are placed with people who are blind across the United States and Canada.</p></p></div></div><div class="card spot " style="column-break-inside: avoid;"> <img class="card-img-top " src="/nj/library/about/facts_fish.jpg" alt="" style="object-fit: cover;"> <h3 class="h4 card-header htext-blue bg-on ">State Fish - The Brook Trout</h3><div class="card-body"><p class="card-text" ><p>The brook trout is native to New Jersey. If you find a brook trout, you know the water is good quality because brook trout can't survive in polluted water.</p></p></div></div><div class="card spot " style="column-break-inside: avoid;"> <img class="card-img-top " src="/nj/library/about/facts_violet.jpg" alt="" style="object-fit: cover;"> <h3 class="h4 card-header htext-blue bg-on ">State Flower - The Violet</h3><div class="card-body"><p class="card-text" ><p>Violets can be found in New Jersey fields, lawns, and meadows -- anywhere that they can find warm spring sunshine.</p></p></div></div><div class="card spot " style="column-break-inside: avoid;"> <img class="card-img-top " src="/nj/library/about/blueberries.jpg" alt="" style="object-fit: cover;"> <h3 class="h4 card-header htext-blue bg-on ">State Fruit - The Blueberry</h3><div class="card-body"><p class="card-text" ><p>The blueberry, which was first cultivated in Whitesbog, became the official state fruit in 2004. In 2003, fourth graders at Veteran's Memorial Elementary School in Brick campaigned to make the blueberry the official state fruit. The students had their idea introduced as legislation and conducted a lobbying campaign to see its passage, including media interviews, a letter and petition drive, presentations to local governing bodies, and a trip to the state's blueberry festival in Whitesbog. In addition, the classes traveled to Trenton to make presentations before Senate and Assembly Committees. Elizabeth Coleman White developed the nation's first cultivated blueberry.</p></p></div></div><div class="card spot " style="column-break-inside: avoid;"> <img class="card-img-top " src="/nj/library/about/fact_microbe_Streptomyces_griseus.jpg" alt="" style="object-fit: cover;"> <h3 class="h4 card-header htext-blue bg-on ">State Microbe - Streptomyces griseus</h3><div class="card-body"><p class="card-text" ><p>The microbe was discovered in New Jersey soil in 1916. In 1943, researchers from Rutgers University used the microbe to create the antibiotic streptomycin. Tuberculosis death rates in the U.S. plummeted. They fell from about 194 deaths per 100,000 people in 1900 to about 9 deaths per 100,000 people in 1955. Rutgers researcher Selman Waksman was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize for Medicine for discovering the microbe and creating the antibiotic.</p></p></div></div><div class="card spot " style="column-break-inside: avoid;"> <img class="card-img-top " src="/nj/library/about/NJ_State_Mineral_Franklinite.jpg" alt="" style="object-fit: cover;"> <h3 class="h4 card-header htext-blue bg-on ">State Mineral - Franklinite</h3><div class="card-body"><p class="card-text" ><p>The mineral franklinite was first described in 1819 by Pierre Berthier and was named in honor of Benjamin Franklin. With a striking black color, submetallic luster, and sharp octahedral crystals, franklinite is aesthetically pleasing and makes for handsome mineral specimens, creating the potential for strong interest from mineral collectors around the world.<br /><br /><a title="Open link in new window" href="https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/2022/S1727/bill-text?f=S2000&n=1727_I1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Learn more about the state mineral franklinite</a></p></p></div></div><div class="card spot " style="column-break-inside: avoid;"> <img class="card-img-top " src="/nj/library/about/fact_reptile_bog_turtle.jpg" alt="" style="object-fit: cover;"> <h3 class="h4 card-header htext-blue bg-on ">State Reptile - Bog Turtle</h3><div class="card-body"><p class="card-text" ><p>The bog turtle is a tiny, dark turtle with a distinct orange patch behind the tympanum (ear membrane) on either side of the head. The scutes (scale-like horny layers) of the carapace (upper shell) are brown or black and may have yellow or reddish centers. Likewise, the plastron (underneath shell) is brownish-black with a light yellow or mahogany center. The limbs are brown and may be mottled with variable amounts of dark yellow, orange, or red blotching. Bog turtles, one of the smallest and most secretive of North America’s turtles, measure only 7.6 to 10 cm (3.0 to 3.9 in.) long as adults.</p></p> <a href ="https://www.nj.gov/dep/fgw/ensp/pdf/end-thrtened/bogtrtl.pdf" class="link_icon card-link" target="_blank"> <i class="fas fa-external-link-alt" aria-hidden="true"></i> Learn More</a></div></div><div class="card spot " style="column-break-inside: avoid;"> <img class="card-img-top " src="/nj/library/about/facts_shell.jpg" alt="" style="object-fit: cover;"> <h3 class="h4 card-header htext-blue bg-on ">State Shell - The Knobbed Whelk</h3><div class="card-body"><p class="card-text" ><p>The knobbed whelk shell is commonly known as the conch shell. Found along NJ beaches and bays, the knobbed whelk is the name of the large marine snail that lives in the shell. Also known by its Italian name, scungilli, the snail is harvested from its spiral shell and canned for food. The shell is yellowish gray in color.</p></p></div></div><div class="card spot " style="column-break-inside: avoid;"> <img class="card-img-top " src="/nj/library/about/USS_NJ_State_Ship.jpg" alt="" style="object-fit: cover;"> <h3 class="h4 card-header htext-blue bg-on ">State Ship - USS New Jersey</h3><div class="card-body"><p class="card-text" ><p>The USS New Jersey, also known as the Battleship New Jersey, was launched in 1942 and was engaged in three wars, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, and has become one of the most decorated battleships in the naval history of the United States.  In addition to the engagement during wars, the USS New Jersey was also deployed in Lebanon, Thailand, and Australia, and was decommissioned in 1991 after an honorable and lengthy service to the country.  The USS New Jersey now resides in Camden, New Jersey, as an educational museum, informing the public about the storied history of the ship, and providing children opportunities to learn about science, technology, the arts and mathematics.</p></p></div></div><div class="card spot " style="column-break-inside: avoid;"> <img class="card-img-top " src="/nj/library/about/facts_ship.jpg" alt="" style="object-fit: cover;"> <h3 class="h4 card-header htext-blue bg-on ">State Tall Ship - The A.J. Meerwald</h3><div class="card-body"><p class="card-text" ><p>The A.J. Meerwald is a Delaware Bay Oyster Schooner. It was originally built to meet the needs of New Jersey's oyster fishing industry. The ship was built in 1928 in Dorchester, New Jersey. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.ajmeerwald.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Learn more about the A.J. Meerwald</a></p></p></div></div><div class="card spot " style="column-break-inside: avoid;"> <img class="card-img-top " src="/nj/library/about/facts_tree.jpg" alt="" style="object-fit: cover;"> <h3 class="h4 card-header htext-blue bg-on ">State Tree - The Red Oak</h3><div class="card-body"><p class="card-text" ><p>The red oak is a hardwood tree that has pointy-lobed leaves with prickly tips. In autumn its leaves turn a beautiful, bright red. 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