The Best About New Jersey - The Garden State

[Videoskooter]

This can all be very true but NY is "discovered" by Belgians

"According to the legend, New York was founded in 1626 by the Dutch in the southern part of Manhattan Island. Some schoolbooks, history books, television broadcasts - and down to cigarettes makers - even say that the founder of New York was named Peter Stuyvesant.


The reality is somewhat different..."

http://users.skynet.be/newyorkfounda...rk.html#Resume

[DISCODISK]

Originally Posted by Bernie

I used to know this from my geography and history lessons when I was a child :oops: Judging by your proximity to France you should be speaking French :D

sounds to me like you were dreaming of donna summer in class
yes we are just 14 miles from france, discoman should really come here on vacation,he would wake up to a lovely view of the french coastline :lol:

the answer is -

1664: Let's call it "New Jersey"
The British took over the Delaware colony and granted the land between the Delaware and the Hudson to Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret. They named it "New Jersey" after the Isle of Jersey in the English Channel. (Now you know for whom the New Jersey towns of Berkeley Heights and Carteret were named.)
george carteret was the then island govenor

[DISCODISK]

Originally Posted by Videoskooter

This can all be very true but NY is "discovered" by Belgians

yep they landed in coney island and built americas first fun fair :lol:

[Videoskooter]

DD, You could be amazed but there were Belgian attractions on Coney Island :lol:

http://www.lostparks.com/piratesw.html

The Belgian Aerial tower:



http://www.fringeunderground.com/richard_egan.html

I met a guy named Dick Ziguns who runs a place called "Sideshows By The Seashore," which is the last authentic old-fashioned side show left in the country. I was a barker on a live thrill show involving this woman from Belgium who swam with sharks. I ran quarter pitch games. I did all kinds of things.

[djscream67]

Originally Posted by DISCODISK

sounds to me like you were dreaming of donna summer in class
yes we are just 14 miles from france, discoman should really come here on vacation,he would wake up to a lovely view of the french coastline :lol:

the answer is -

1664: Let's call it "New Jersey"
The British took over the Delaware colony and granted the land between the Delaware and the Hudson to Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret. They named it "New Jersey" after the Isle of Jersey in the English Channel. (Now you know for whom the New Jersey towns of Berkeley Heights and Carteret were named.)
george carteret was the then island govenor

I didn't know all that! Now I know where New Netherlands came from. Guess what it's called today?