Interesting Facts about New Jersey

• Johan Printz, governor of New Sweden, was so heavy (400 pounds) that the gangplank almost collapsed when he arrived at his colony. The Indians called him "Big Tub."
• When American Revolutionary heroine Molly Pitcher's husband was killed, she fought in his place at his cannon.
• The first real game of baseball (played under the Cartwright rules) was played at Hoboken in 1846.
• The first derby in the country was run at Passaic in 1864.
• One William Campbell, a non-Indian, founded a wampum mint near Hackensack; it operated until 1889.
• Colonel John Stevens of Hoboken operated an experimental railroad track of 630 feet near there.
• Standard Time was devised in 1883 by William F. Allen of South Orange.