16 possible nicknames for New Jersey
How did New Jersey become the Garden State? According to USA Today;
Wikipedia-Abraham Browning
In 1876, Abraham Browning of Camden, a prominent New Jersey politician, referred to his state as the Garden State during a speech at the Philadelphia Centennial exhibition on New Jersey Day, August 24. He used the phrase as he railed against neighbor states for taking New Jersey resources. Browning compared New Jersey to an immense barrel filled with good things to eat and open at both ends, with Pennsylvanians grabbing from one end and New Yorkers from the other Kind of reminds me of a certain radio station.