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The New Jersey Performing Arts Center, near Military Park, opened in 1997, is the home of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the New Jersey State Opera, the center's programs of national and international music, dance, and theater make it the nation's sixth-largest performing arts center, attracting over 400,000 visitors each year.
It was not until 1830 that most blacks were free in the state. New Jersey was the last northern state to abolish slavery completely, and by the close of the Civil War, about a dozen African-Americans in New Jersey were still apprenticed freedmen. The 1860 census found just over 25,000 free African Americans in the state. [24]
The U.S. state of New Jersey first required its residents to register their motor vehicles in 1903. Registrants provided their own license plates for display until 1908, when the state began to issue plates. [1] As of 2024, plates are issued by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission. Front and rear plates are required for most classes of ...
Treat wanted to name the community "Milford." Another settler, Abraham Pierson, had previously been a preacher in England's Newark-on-Trent, and adopted the name; [5] he is also quoted as saying that the community reflecting the new task at hand should be named "New Ark" for "New Ark of the Covenant." The name was shortened to Newark.
Lucinda Florio (1947–2022), teacher and advocate for education and literacy, who, as the wife of former New Jersey Governor James Florio, served as the First Lady of New Jersey [179] Edwin B. Forsythe (1916–1984), member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey who served as mayor of Moorestown from 1957–1962 [91] [180]
Rutgers was designated the State University of New Jersey by acts of the New Jersey Legislature in 1945 and 1956. [15] Before the 1956 law went into effect, the board of trustees voted to divest itself of the Rutgers Preparatory School , which became fully independent in 1957 and relocated to a campus on the Wells Estate (purchased from the ...
Camden is located in New Jersey's 1st Congressional District [140] and is part of New Jersey's 5th state legislative district. [141] [142] [143] New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Democrats Cory Booker (Newark, term ends 2027) and Andy Kim (Moorestown, term ends 2031). [144] [145]
Princeton is located in the 12th Congressional District [63] and is part of New Jersey's 16th state legislative district. [64] [65] [66] For the 119th United States Congress, New Jersey's 12th congressional district is represented by Bonnie Watson Coleman (D, Ewing Township).