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NEW JERSEY SYMBOLS
State flower: violet
State bird: eastern goldfinch
State tree: red oak
State bug: honey bee
State animal: horse
State dinosaur: hadrosaurus
State fish: brook trout
State shell: knobbed whelk
State fruit: blueberry
State ship: A.J. Meerwald, a
Delaware Bay oyster schooner
State folk dance: square dance
The flag was adopted in 1896
Official color: buff with dark blue
What the New Jersey seal means —
Helmet and horse head: represent New Jersey's
independence as a state
Liberty: woman holding a staff with a liberty cap
represents freedom
Ceres: woman on the right is the Roman goddess of
grain holding a cornucopia filled with the fruits and
vegetables produced in New Jersey
Shield: shows three plows which symbolize the
agricultural tradition of the state
Scroll: the state's motto, "Liberty and Prosperity," and
the year N.J. became a state, 1776
You're from New Jersey if you ...
• know why N.J. is called the Garden State
• refer to Great Adventure, not Six Flags
• never pump your own gas
• know that the only people who call it "Joisey"
are from the Bronx or Texas
• know what a "jughandle" is
• know how to negotiate a circle
• know that the last statement had to do with driving
• refer to all highways by their numbers
(there is no I-95, just 95)
• know what a "Piney" is
• only go to the beach if you live there, otherwise
you go "down the shore"
• know that New Jersey isn't one big oil refinery
or like "that part of the Turnpike"
• drink "wooder" and eat "chalklet"
• are from North, Central or South Jersey
• live within 20 minutes of at least
three different malls
• consider putting mayo on a corned beef
sandwich a sacrilege
• know what "youse" means
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