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New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on the southwest by Delaware Bay and the state of Delaware. At 7,354 square miles (19,050 km²), New Jersey is the fifth-smallest state in land area; but with close to 9.3 million residents, it ranks 11th in population and first in population density. The state capital is Trenton, and the most populous city is Newark. With the exception of Warren County, all of the state's 21 counties lie within the combined statistical areas of New York City or Philadelphia.

New Jersey was first inhabited by Native Americans for at least 2,800 years, with the Lenape being the dominant group when Europeans arrived in the early 17th century. Dutch and Swedish colonists founded the first European settlements in the state. The British later seized control of the region and established the Province of New Jersey, named after the largest of the Channel Islands. The colony's fertile lands and relative religious tolerance drew a large and diverse population. New Jersey was among the Thirteen Colonies that supported the American Revolution, hosting multiple pivotal battles and military commands in the American Revolutionary War. The state remained in, and supported, the Union during the American Civil War. Following the Civil War's end, the state emerged as a major national center of manufacturing and immigration, helping drive the Industrial Revolution and becoming the site for many industrial, technological, and commercial innovations into the mid 20th century. (Full article...)

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Anderson Street Station is a NJ Transit rail station on the Pascack Valley Line. The station is one of two rail stations in Hackensack, New Jersey, United States, and is located at Anderson Street near Linden Street. The Essex Street station is also located in Hackensack. This line runs to Hoboken Terminal with connections via the Secaucus Junction transfer station to New Jersey Transit one-stop service to New York Penn Station and to other NJ Transit rail service. All normal schedule trains service this station seven days a week, except for the Metro-North Railroad Express trains to Spring Valley, New York.

The station house was built in 1869 (and opened on September 9, 1869) by the Hackensack and New York Railroad on a track extension from Passaic Street in Hackensack. The station was turned over to the Erie Railroad in 1896 and New Jersey Transit in 1983. The next year, the station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The station building, which was 139 years old, was destroyed in a three-alarm fire and explosion at 5:55 a.m. on January 10, 2009. At the time the station house was the second-oldest (active service) in New Jersey (second to Ramsey's Main Street station). The station building was also the site for the Green Caboose Thrift Shop, a charity gift shop maintained by a branch of the Hackensack University Medical Center from 1962 until the station depot burned in 2009.

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Frank Sinatra Park is a Hoboken park, offering views of Manhattan. Built around 1998, it honors Frank Sinatra, who was born in Hoboken. A curved flat area faces the former site of the World Trade Center.

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Photograph by Mathew Brady, 1861

George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was an American soldier, Civil War Union general, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician who served as the 24th governor of New Jersey. A graduate of West Point, McClellan served with distinction during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848), and later left the Army to serve as an executive and engineer on railroads until the outbreak of the American Civil War (1861–1865). Early in the conflict, McClellan was appointed to the rank of major general and played an important role in raising a well-trained and disciplined army, which would become the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater; he served a brief period (November 1861 to March 1862) as Commanding General of the United States Army of the Union Army.

McClellan organized and led the Union army in the Peninsula Campaign in southeastern Virginia from March through July 1862. It was the first large-scale offensive in the Eastern Theater. Making an amphibious clockwise turning movement around the Confederate Army in northern Virginia, McClellan's forces turned west to move up the Virginia Peninsula, between the James River and York River, landing from Chesapeake Bay, with the Confederate capital, Richmond, as their objective. Initially, McClellan was somewhat successful against General Joseph E. Johnston, but the emergence of General Robert E. Lee to command the Army of Northern Virginia turned the subsequent Seven Days Battles into a Union defeat. However, historians note that Lee's victory was in many ways pyrrhic as he failed to destroy the Army of the Potomac and suffered a bloody repulse at Malvern Hill. (Full article...)

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The following are images from various New Jersey-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1A heat map showing median income distribution by county in New Jersey (from New Jersey)
Image 2Map of New Jersey's major transportation networks and cities (from New Jersey)

Map of counties in New Jersey by racial plurality, per the 2020 census

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40–50%

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60–70%

70–80%

80–90%

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40–50%

Hispanic or Latino

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Image 4New Jersey State House in Trenton (from New Jersey)
Image 5George B. McClellan (from History of New Jersey)
Image 6Lyndon Johnson meets Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro (from History of New Jersey)
Image 7High-rise residential complexes in the borough of Fort Lee (from New Jersey)
Image 8Molly Pitcher taking over her husband's position at a cannon (from History of New Jersey)
Image 9Michael Schleisser and the "Jersey man-eater" as seen in the Bronx Home News (from History of New Jersey)
Image 10A NJ Transit train heads down the Northeast Corridor through Rahway (from New Jersey)
Image 11Map of the 107-mile-long (172 km) Morris Canal across North Jersey (from New Jersey)
Image 12New Jersey's telephone area codes (from New Jersey)
Image 13The original provinces of West and East New Jersey are shown in yellow and green respectively. The Keith Line is shown in red, and the Coxe and Barclay Line is shown in orange. (from History of New Jersey)
Image 14A fleet of naval forces being constructed in the Camden shipyards (from History of New Jersey)
Image 15Old Queens at Rutgers University, the largest state university system in New Jersey (from New Jersey)
Image 16Washington Crossing the Delaware in the winter of 1777, during the New York and New Jersey campaign, depicted in this portrait by Emanuel Leutze, 1851 (from New Jersey)
Image 17Great Falls of the Passaic River in Paterson was designated a U.S. National Historical Park in 2009. (from New Jersey)
Image 18George Washington Bridge, connecting Fort Lee (foreground) in Bergen County across the Hudson River to New York City, is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge. (from New Jersey)
Image 19At 69.6 mi (112.0 km) in length, Raritan River is the longest river entirely within New Jersey, flowing from Raritan Valley near Clinton (above) east to Raritan Bay. (from New Jersey)
Image 20A 1950s-style diner in Orange (from New Jersey)
Image 21Atlantic City is an oceanfront resort and the nexus of New Jersey's gambling industry. (from New Jersey)
Image 22Part of Palisades Insterstate Park and the cliffs of Palisades in Bergen County overlooking the Hudson River (from New Jersey)
Image 23Paterson, sometimes known as Silk City, has become a prime destination for an internationally diverse pool of immigrants, with at least 52 distinct ethnic groups. (from New Jersey)
Image 24A letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle containing anthrax powder caused the deaths of two postal workers. (from History of New Jersey)
Image 25The Great Falls of the Passaic River (from History of New Jersey)
Image 26Results of the 1910 gubernatorial election in New Jersey. Wilson won the counties in blue. (from History of New Jersey)
Image 27Two Hudson–Bergen Light Rail trains in Jersey City (from New Jersey)
Image 28Governor Wilson, 1911 (from History of New Jersey)
Image 29Military map by William Faden with troop movements during the Ten Crucial Days (from History of New Jersey)
Image 30Cranberry harvest (from New Jersey)
Image 31Prudential Center in Newark, home of the NHL's New Jersey Devils (from New Jersey)
Image 32Delaware Water Gap is shared between Warrren County and neighboring Pennsylvania. (from New Jersey)
Image 33The relative location of New Netherland and New Sweden in eastern North America in the colonial era (from New Jersey)
Image 34A modern map which approximates the relative size and location of the settled areas of New Netherland and New Sweden, which was never officially recognized by the Dutch Republic (from History of New Jersey)
Image 35The Province of New Jersey, Divided into East and West, commonly called The Jerseys,
1777 map by William Faden (from History of New Jersey)
Image 36The Hindenburg just moments after catching fire. (from History of New Jersey)
Image 37Downtown New Brunswick is an educational and cultural district undergoing gentrification. (from New Jersey)
Image 38Nassau Hall at Princeton University, an Ivy League university and one of the world's most prominent research institutions (from New Jersey)
Image 39New Jersey population density map (2020) (from New Jersey)
$Image 40Boardwalk in Atlantic City as seen from Caesars Atlantic City. Opened in 1870, it was the first boardwalk built in the United States. At .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}5+1⁄2 miles (9 km) long, it is also the world's longest.$

Image 40Boardwalk in Atlantic City as seen from Caesars Atlantic City. Opened in 1870, it was the first boardwalk built in the United States. At 5+1⁄2 miles (9 km) long, it is also the world's longest.
Image 41Bergen County across the George Washington Bridge (from New Jersey)
Image 42Cape May–Lewes Ferry connects New Jersey and Delaware across Delaware Bay. (from New Jersey)
Image 43MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, the most expensive stadium ever built, is home to the NFL's New York Giants and New York Jets. (from New Jersey)
Image 44India Square in the Marion Section of Jersey City is home to the highest concentration of Asian Indians in the Western Hemisphere. (from New Jersey)
Image 45Skyscrapers in Jersey City, one of the most ethnically diverse cities in the world (from New Jersey)
Image 46Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood Township is the world's largest yeshiva outside Israel. Orthodox Jews represent one of the fastest-growing segments of New Jersey's population. (from New Jersey)
Image 47Federal Courthouse in Camden, which is connected to Philadelphia via the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in the background (from New Jersey)
Image 48Washington Rallying the Americans at the Battle of Princeton, a portrait of George Washington rallying his troops at the January 3, 1777, Battle of Princeton by William Ranney (from New Jersey)
Image 49metropolitan statistical areas and divisions of New Jersey; those shaded in blue are part of the New York City Metropolitan Area, including Mercer and Warren counties. Counties shaded in green, including Atlantic, Cape May, and Cumberland counties, belong to the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area. (from New Jersey)

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