from the channel isle of jersey
New Jersey
The New Jersey Gazette.
New Jersey is called the Garden State.
Jersey is a British island. When they came here they named it New Jersey.
New York, New York. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Jersey City, New Jersey.
The state of New Jersey didn't have a much different name when it was first name. Back then, it was known as the Settlement of New Jersey.
It came from the Isle of Jersey in England.
New Jersey is named for the Isle of Jersey in the English Channel near Normandy France. Jersey is not French but is believed to have a Viking origin but its name meaning is lost to history.
New Jersey has considered the violet as the State flower since 1913.
It was named after Jersey, England. When English immigrants came over to America, they named it New Jersey after their homeland.
Old Jersey was tired of it, and give it to them.
Cause its the shore in New Jersey.