10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About New Jersey

We have more horses per square mile than any other state. Haaaaaay!

The first organized baseball game was played in Hoboken in 1846.

A lot of your favorite processed and fast foods taste the way they do because of natural and artificial flavors created by companies along the "Flavor Corridor" which runs along the Turnpike from about exit 8a all the way up to the Teaneck area! Yum?

New Jersey is home to America's first boardwalk, which opened in Atlantic City in 1870.

New Jersey is home to the most diners in the world. (And with good reason. Only we know how awesome they are.)

The first American football game ever played was between Rutgers and Princeton in 1869.

America's first drive-in movie theater opened in Camden in 1933. (The last one standing is the Delsea Drive-In in Vineland.)

America's oldest commercial distillery can be found in the Scobeyville section of Colts Neck. Laird & Co. is best known for their Applejack, but they're also responsible for the Banker's Club line of vodka, rum, and whiskey that got me through many a college weekend!

NJ is one of only two states where every county is considered part of a metropolitan area. (Rhode Island is the other one.)

Not like that.

Mount Mitchill in Highlands is the highest coastal elevation point along the eastern seaboard from Maine to Florida. (It's also home to Monmouth County's 9/11 Memorial.)