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.
The Number of Stars that are in the Flag of the United States of America. When we look at the flag of the United States of America we see that there are red lines and stars. In the flag there are 50 stars. These 50 starts represent the states that are placed in the country of the United States of America, each star represents one state. There are 13 stripes and these 13 stripesâ six of them are white and the other seven of them are red. These 13 stripes represent the 13 colonies that are available in the establishment of the country that rebel against the British empire. These 13 colonies are the colonies that plays very important role on the establishment and ...