It was a crisp morning in 1524, suddenly, there is a strange floating structure, far bigger than the biggest canoe. An Italian sea captain named Giovanni da Verrazzano had anchored briefly off Sandy Hook, but never returned. This lead to the discovery of the colony of what is now New Jersey. The Native Americans were confused as the strange men made their way to the mainland. New Jersey was no longer filled with only Natives. The Dutch, Swedes, and English claimed New Jersey. In 1609, an English captain named Henry Hudson sailed up the river that today bears his name. Hudson’s ship, the Half Moon, flew the Dutch flag. Based on Hudson’s expedition, The Netherlands claimed the land around the Hudson River. Although the Dutch did establish
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From it’s highest point, which is 1,803 feet, you will see nothing but beautiful landscapes. New Jersey lies in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The Atlantic Ocean laps it’s eastern shore. The Delaware River and Bay separate it from two neighbors, Pennsylvania and Delaware, leaving the settlers with a plentiful supply of water for the rough times to come. When you travel inland from the New Jersey shore, your will soon reach a region of salt marshes, bogs, and forests of scrub pine, oak, and cedar. This is the Pinelands, sometimes known as the Pine Barrens. With all these trees around meant that the explorers had plenty of wood and supplies to build shelters and, again, survive the harsh times ahead of them. New Jersey is a state located in the Moist Continental Climate Zone. Meaning it has insane temperatures! The winters can be fierce and straight up freezing, but the summers can be so hot that if you step outside you get an instant tan! Each year, strong tropical storms brew in the southern Atlantic. Many of them whirl north along the coast. When the winds of a tropical storm reach a steady speed of 74 miles per hour, the storm is classified as a hurricane. Thankfully, full-scale hurricanes rarely strike New Jersey, but that small chance made the thought of settling there are real …show more content…
From it’s hot and sandy beaches to it’s crowded and expensive streets, New Jersey is a beautiful state filled with many beautiful people. Many people know New Jersey for it’s major beach parties and the fact that it has more millionaires than anyone in the country, but they miss the meaningful stuff such as having one of the longest piers in the entire world. Or the fact that the first scientist to ever witness a supernova, a star’s explosion, was from New Jersey. Or when the U.S.S. New Jersey battleship was first put into active battle. Even the less important facts are interesting, like how the very first Miss America Pageant was held in New Jersey. Or how the first nearly complete dinosaur fossil was found in Haddonfield. As you can clearly see, New Jersey is a very great state, not just for insane beach parties, but also amazing scientific
From it’s highest point, which is 1,803 feet, you will see nothing but beautiful landscapes. New Jersey lies in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The Atlantic Ocean laps it’s eastern shore. The Delaware River and Bay separate it from two neighbors, Pennsylvania and Delaware, leaving the settlers with a plentiful supply of water for the rough times to come. When you travel inland from the New Jersey shore, your will soon reach a region of salt marshes, bogs, and forests of scrub pine, oak, and cedar. This is the Pinelands, sometimes known as the Pine Barrens. With all these trees around meant that the explorers had plenty of wood and supplies to build shelters and, again, survive the harsh times ahead of them. New Jersey is a state located in the Moist Continental Climate Zone. Meaning it has insane temperatures! The winters can be fierce and straight up freezing, but the summers can be so hot that if you step outside you get an instant tan! Each year, strong tropical storms brew in the southern Atlantic. Many of them whirl north along the coast. When the winds of a tropical storm reach a steady speed of 74 miles per hour, the storm is classified as a hurricane. Thankfully, full-scale hurricanes rarely strike New Jersey, but that small chance made the thought of settling there are real …show more content…
From it’s hot and sandy beaches to it’s crowded and expensive streets, New Jersey is a beautiful state filled with many beautiful people. Many people know New Jersey for it’s major beach parties and the fact that it has more millionaires than anyone in the country, but they miss the meaningful stuff such as having one of the longest piers in the entire world. Or the fact that the first scientist to ever witness a supernova, a star’s explosion, was from New Jersey. Or when the U.S.S. New Jersey battleship was first put into active battle. Even the less important facts are interesting, like how the very first Miss America Pageant was held in New Jersey. Or how the first nearly complete dinosaur fossil was found in Haddonfield. As you can clearly see, New Jersey is a very great state, not just for insane beach parties, but also amazing scientific