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Goose Goslin, born in Salem (pop. 5,857) in 1900, was a National Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder who earned a reputation as a powerful clutch hitter. He led his teams to five American League pennants, three with the Washington Senators and two with the Detroit Tigers.

first appeared: 7/2/2006

Running back Franco Harris, born in Fort Dix (pop. 7,464) in 1950, ran for 1,000-plus yards eight times in 12 seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers and was a member of four Super Bowl-championship teams.

first appeared: 6/25/2006

The Battleship New Jersey, the nation's most decorated battleship, is now a floating museum on the Delaware River along the Camden Waterfront. As one of the Iowa class battleships, the largest, fastest and most powerful the United States ever built, the USS New Jersey was active during World War II as well as the Korean, Vietnam and Gulf wars.

first appeared: 6/4/2006

Dave Thomas (1932-2002), founder of the Wendy's restaurant chain and an advocate for adoption, was born in Atlantic City (pop. 40,517) and adopted at the age of six weeks. Thomas dropped out of school when he was 15 to work full time in the restaurant business and returned to complete his GED 45 years later.

first appeared: 5/21/2006

Princeton University has been the setting for several films, including Oscar-winning A Beautiful Mind, which chronicles the life of brilliant but schizophrenic mathematician John Nash. The 1994 motion picture I.Q., which starred Walter Matthau as Albert Einstein, also was filmed in the university town of Princeton (pop. 16,027).

first appeared: 5/14/2006

Because of its favorable climate for people with respiratory ailments, Plainfield (pop. 47,829) was dubbed the "Colorado of the East" by a local newspaper in 1886.

first appeared: 4/23/2006

Camden was headquarters for the Victor Talking Machine Co., a phonograph manufacturer from 1901 to 1929, when it was purchased by RCA. The newly formed company became RCA Victor and manufactured radios and phonographs.

first appeared: 4/9/2006

In 2004, officials in Buena Vista (pop. 7,436) temporarily renamed a section of town "Mojito" after the Cuban rum drink. Rum maker Bacardi suggested the publicity stunt as a nod to Dalponte Farms, a local mint grower. Mint is an ingredient in the mojito cocktail.

first appeared: 3/26/2006

Manufacturer and inventor Samuel Leeds Allen, who patented the Flexible Flyer sled in 1889, built a grand home in Moorestown (pop. 19,017) in the late 1800s. The manor was named Breidenhart, meaning broad hearthstone, but often is referred to as the "castle." Today, the house is part of a nursing facility called the Lutheran Home at Moorestown.

first appeared: 3/12/2006

To escape the press, celebrity-aviator Charles Lindbergh built a 390-acre estate for his family near Hopewell (pop. 2,035). It was from this home that an intruder kidnapped Lindbergh’s 20-month-old son from his nursery in 1932. The child’s body was found later, and a carpenter was convicted and executed.

first appeared: 2/26/2006

Raised in Willingboro (pop. 33,008), track-and-field star Carl Lewis won four gold medals at the 1984 Olympics, two golds and a silver at the 1988 Olympics, two golds at the 1992 event and Olympic gold in the long jump in 1996.

first appeared: 2/12/2006

Renaldo Nehemiah, a native of Newark, was the world’s top-ranked high hurdler for four consecutive years beginning in 1978. In 1981, he set the world record in the 110-meter high hurdles with a time of 12.93 seconds. The multi-talented athlete played professional football for the San Francisco 49s from 1982 to 1985.

first appeared: 1/29/2006

Albert Payson Terhune, a dog-breeder and author, was famous for his novels chronicling the adventures of dogs, particularly collies. His estate in Wayne is maintained as Terhune-Sunnybank Park, where a plaque designates the home a Literary Landmark.

first appeared: 1/15/2006

MISS NEW JERSEY 2006—Julie Robenhymer owns her own bridal dress shop and learned to shoot a gun at age 6. The University of Massachusetts graduate is an avid ice-hockey fan and once worked for the Trenton Thunder, a minor league baseball team.

first appeared: 1/8/2006

Before his rise to fame as an abstract impressionist, Dutch artist Willem de Kooning lived briefly in Hoboken (pop. 38,577), where he supported himself as a house painter. He probably is best known for his series of paintings of women.

first appeared: 1/1/2006

In 1817, Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon’s older brother, settled in Bordentown (pop. 3,969) under the name Count de Survilliers. He acquired more than 1,000 acres along the Delaware River, building an estate popularly called "Bonaparte’s Park."

first appeared: 12/18/2005

A neon sign depicting Maxwell House Coffee’s "Good to the Last Drop" logo topped the company’s Hoboken plant from 1939 to 1993. The sign’s refurbished "last drop," a 200-pound piece of glass and metal, now is owned by the Hoboken Historical Museum.

first appeared: 12/4/2005

Track star Carl Lewis, who grew up in Willingboro (pop. 33,008), won four gold medals at the 1984 Olympics, followed by two golds and a silver in ’88, two golds in ’92 and one gold at the ’96 games.

first appeared: 11/20/2005

In 1972, 12-year-old Maria Pepe, the first female to play Little League baseball, pitched three games for Hoboken’s Young Democrats before protests from opposing teams benched her and propelled her case to the state’s Superior Court, which ruled that Little League must be open to both genders.

first appeared: 11/6/2005

Comedian Jerry Lewis, born in 1926 in Newark, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 for his efforts on behalf of people with muscular dystrophy.

first appeared: 10/23/2005

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