Origins of the Nickname. Abraham Browning of Camden is given credit for giving New Jersey the nickname the Garden State. According to Alfred Heston's 1926 two-volume book Jersey Waggon Jaunts, Browning called New Jersey the Garden State while speaking at the Philadelphia Centennial exhibition on New Jersey Day (August 24, 1876).
There are 13 stripes and 50 stars on the American flag. The stripes stand for the thirteen original colonies the fifty stars stand for the fifty states. There are 13 stripes and 50 stars on the American flag. The stripes stand for the thirteen original colonies the fifty stars stand for the fifty states.
Credit: robinzeggs Flickr CC-BY-2.0. The first U.S. flag commissioned by Congress in 1777 had 13 stripes to represent the 13 states in the union. The flag also contained 13 stars on a blue field, again representing the states. As the nation grew, a new star and a new stripe were added for each new state. This continued until 1818.