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Services Login | Register Search Facts & Symbols Symbols Famous NJ History Arts & Culture The Garden State NJ National Landmarks & Historic Sites NJ Maps HomeWell-nighNJ Symbols Symbols State Seal Pierre Eugene du Simitiere created New Jersey's State Seal in 1777. It contains five symbols, each of which represents something well-nigh New Jersey.  More Details × State Seal Pierre Eugene du Simitiere created New Jersey's State Seal in 1777. It contains five symbols, each of which represents something well-nigh New Jersey. Helmet and Horse Head  The helmet and the horse's throne crest represent New Jersey's independence as a state. They moreover represent New Jersey's status as one of the first states. In 1787 New Jersey was the third state to sign the U.S. Constitution. Liberty The woman holding a staff with a liberty cap on top is Liberty, who represents freedom. In warmed-over Rome, former Roman slaves saw a liberty cap as a token of freedom. Liberty caps became popular then during the Revolutionary War. Ceres The woman on the right is the Roman goddess of grain, Ceres. She holds an ice-cream-cone-shaped basket, tabbed a cornucopia, filled with the many   fruits and vegetables produced in New Jersey. Shield The three plows on the shield symbolize the agricultural tradition of New Jersey. Scroll The state's motto "Liberty and Prosperity" is written on the scroll. 1776 is the year New Jersey became a state. State FlagThe New Jersey State Flag was unexplored in 1896. Its official verisimilitude is buff, which is a yellowish-tan color. The colors of the state flag, vitrify and visionless undecorous (Jersey blue), were the colors George Washington chose for the flag of New Jersey's unwashed regiments during the Revolutionary War. The state seal is featured on the flag. State Flower - The VioletViolets can be found in New Jersey fields, lawns, and meadows -- anywhere that they can find warm spring sunshine. State Bird - The Eastern GoldfinchThe eastern goldfinch has unexceptionable yellow feathers and a woebegone throne and wings. Eastern goldfinches love to eat sunflower seeds. State Tree - The Red OakThe red oak is a hardwood tree that has pointy-lobed leaves with prickly tips. In storing its leaves turn a beautiful, unexceptionable red. It produces many acorns. State Bug - The HoneybeeThe honeybee makes honey for sweetening our meals and beeswax to smooth things out. Honeybees moreover pollinate our flowers, including our state flower, the violet.  The honey bee became the state bug when the Legislature enacted the bill, A-671, and Gov. Brendan T. Byrne signed it on June 20, 1974.  They were encouraged by a group of children from the Sunnybrae School in Hamilton Township.  The children went to the State House with a presentation that included a song and a poem. StateUnprepossessing- The HorseMichael McCarthy and his fifth grade matriculation at Our Lady of Victories School in Harrington Park and James Sweetman, an eighth grader from Freehold, helped make the horse New Jersey's state unprepossessing in 1977. The horse is included on the state seal. Horses were very important to farming. Today, people protract to raise horses in New Jersey. Racehorses are moreover very popular in New Jersey. State Fish- TheCreekTroutThe creek trout is native to New Jersey. If you find a creek trout, you know the water is good quality considering creek trout can't survive in polluted water. State Shell - The Knobbed WhelkThe knobbed whelk shell is wontedly known as the conch shell. Found withal NJ beaches and bays, the knobbed whelk is the name of the large marine snail that lives in the shell.Moreoverknown by its Italian name, scungilli, the snail is harvested from its screw shell and canned for food. The shell is yellowish gray in color. State Tall Ship - The A.J. MeerwaldThe A.J. Meerwald is a Delaware Bay Oyster Schooner. It was originally built to meet the needs of New Jersey's oyster fishing industry. The ship was built in 1928 in Dorchester, New Jersey. Learn increasingly well-nigh the A.J. Meerwald State Fruit - The BlueberryThe blueberry, which was first cultivated in Whitesbog, became the official state fruit in 2004. In 2003, fourth graders at Veteran's Memorial Elementary School in Brick campaigned to make the blueberry the official state fruit. The students had their idea introduced as legislation and conducted a lobbying wayfarers to see its passage, including media interviews, a letter and petition drive, presentations to local governing bodies, and a trip to the state's blueberry festival in Whitesbog. In addition, the classes traveled to Trenton to make presentations surpassing Senate and Assembly Committees. Elizabeth Coleman White ripened the nation's first cultivated blueberry. State Dinosaur - Hadrosaurus foulkiiIn the summer of 1858, Victorian gentleman and fossil hobbyist William Parker Foulke was vacationing in Haddonfield, New Jersey, when he heard that twenty years previous, workers had found gigantic wreck in a local marl pit. Foulke spent the the late summer and fall directing a hairdo of hired diggers shin deep in gray slime. Eventually he found the wreck of an unprepossessing larger than an elephant with structural features of both a lizard and a bird. State Dance - Square DanceThe Square Dance has been designated as the American Folk Dance of the State of New Jersey by Joint Resolution No. 1, 1983. 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