Two Minute Tour of New Jersey： 50 States for Kids - FreeSchool

New Jersey is known as the Garden State. One of the thirteen original colonies, New Jersey was actually the third state to ratify the Constitution on December 18, 1787. New Jersey was settled in the 1630s by the Dutch, who named it New Netherland. About thirty years later, the English took control of the area and renamed it New Jersey, after an island in the English Channel. New Jersey is famous as the place where Thomas Edison, the inventor, had his workshop. At his laboratory in Menlo Park, he created many important inventions, like the light bulb, the telephone, and the phonograph, a machine that can record and play back sound. Thomas Edison isn't the only famous scientist who called New Jersey home. Albert Einstein made Princeton, New Jersey his home after he fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s. In fact, a lot of interesting people have come from New Jersey. Here's some more about New Jersey. I hope you enjoyed learning about New Jersey, the Garden State.