USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -New Jersey was named for the island of Jersey in the English Channel, but is also known as the “Garden State”. The State is located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. It is bordered by New York State to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Delaware to the south, and Pennsylvania to the west.

Detailed explanation-2: -Timmins Mill, now known as New Egypt (Salter, 1890), in Ocean County was first identified as New Jersey’s geographic center in 1936 by Henry Beck, who stated in his book, Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey, that Timmins Mill in Plumsted Township was the approximate geographical center of New Jersey.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Northeast includes Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

Detailed explanation-4: -This history has given the State distinctive landforms that are divided into four regions (Salisbury, 1898, p. 5), known as phys-iographic provinces. Beginning in the northwest and proceeding southeast, these regions are called the Valley and Ridge, High-lands, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain Provinces.

Detailed explanation-5: -New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.