On This Day in New Jersey History

by Harry Ziegler, James M. Madden, Joseph G. Bilby

Book Overview

The history of the Garden State is filled with well-known events and forgotten happenings. German Americans opened the nation's first kindergarten in Hoboken on February 11, 1861. Prohibition brought more than two hundred bootleggers together in Sea Bright on August 15, 1924, to discuss a fixed price on their product. As America fought World War I and desperately needed ammunition, the T.A. Gillespie Shell plant exploded in Sayreville on October 4,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626195226
• ISBN13: 9781626195226
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"