The state nickname for New Jersey is:
Abraham Browning of Camden once gave New Jersey the nickname "The Garden State". He called New Jersey so, speaking at the Philadelphia Centennial exhibition on New Jersey Day on the 24th of August, 1876. He said the Garden State was a prodigious barrel, filled with the pleasures of the table and open at both ends, both for New Yorkers and Pennsylvanians.The name stuck since that moment.
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108 Comments
llm
Most people driving in New Jersey have been on or at least heard of the Garden State Parkway.
Raven Berlowitz
Steve Obsharsky Floridian huh? they might think about renaming it The Sinkhole State. LOL
Weaver Cynthia
The best tomatoes! Good corn, too.
alisonmc
Lots of small farms in NJ. Great soil, very fertile.
Annetta
Not anymore. Lots of murders there and low class living.
Ernie Peltz
When we lived in that sesspool we always called it the Garbage State. They were importing garbage from Filthydelpa and the other garbage kindom of New York.Get close to the north part and it does stink.
Ronnie Docherty
pinkley, You should try State Island. Phew.
West of the state is rural farmlands.
North west is forested and hilly.
South has beaches, boardwalks and barrier islands.
peggykandies
1876 it applied. But it would not today
Dar Numan
Victor Melling:
Why is New Jersey called "The Garden State"?
Gracie Hart:
Because "Oil and Petrochemical Refinery State" wouldn't fit on a license plate?
jaquesdiana
Needs a new name
svlindsey
Got it have visited NJover the past few years nice people
shannon
Maybe back in 1876, don't think that applies in 2019
Just saying
rustynshushu
The Pharmaceutical State
kcortez
From Miss Congeniality:
Victor Melling:
Why is New Jersey called "The Garden State"?
Gracie Hart:
Because "Oil and Petrochemical Refinery State" wouldn't fit on a license plate?
pinkley
When I was little(60 years ago) we were driving somewhere, there was this horrible stink and I asked my mother what it was and my father said, "New Jersy". I said, " are we in New Jersy?" He said, "
almost the smell is how you tell you're getting close to New Jersy."
kellyharwell
Raven Berlowitz, that's funny
thevoyers
Needs to be called The State of Extremes.