Every Lake
New Jersey
Water on three sides — Delaware, Hudson and Atlantic — and a 127-mile beach down the fourth.
New Jersey in relief
The land itself, cut in six steps of birch from the lowlands to the high ground — the cities starred, the summit and rise on the title block. No counties, no roads: just the shape of New Jersey.
About New Jersey
New Jersey is nearly an island on the board: the Delaware River draws the whole western border, the Hudson and the Kill Van Kull the northeast, and the Atlantic the rest. The north end is Highlands and Kittatinny Ridge, cut by the Delaware Water Gap; below the fall line the coastal plain runs flat and sandy through the Pine Barrens to Cape May. Twenty-one counties, laid out early and small, pack the northeast around Newark and thin out toward the shore. The barrier islands and Barnegat Bay give the coastline its unmistakable comb-tooth edge.
New Jersey ratified on December 18, 1787, third of the thirteen, and unanimously. Trenton, at the head of navigation on the Delaware, became the permanent capital in 1790 — the same riverbank Washington crossed to on Christmas night in 1776. The map is a road map as much as anything: the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway run the length of the state, I-78, I-80 and I-287 web the north, and the shore towns from Sandy Hook to Cape May line up in order down the eastern edge.
- Six layers of birch — the land in elevation steps
- The summit and total rise on the title block
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A double rule engraved around the edge
- Every county line and the state border
- The interstates with their shields — 7 on this board
- The major cities, starred and named
- Title block with the admission date and capital
- A mile ruler engraved around the frame
