Hamilton East Steinert High School - Cresset Yearbook (Hamilton, NJ)

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wh ZZFCEIYTEIVAKY the... THE STA? 5' a QD 9 vs Y Q M Z? im? 1964 rzsszi' NORMA SIMCOX-EDITOR of 'ty 5, 'fu ., . O I-. fel ' V . ,, 1 5 qw' 2 D4 'hi V C-1 CD my Thr L1 Q M .QQ Q N ,, 1

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A ' ,me ' V i , - 1 , ll l l ,, l ' 1 FRoM iv . 1 Nl 5 -E il if-, a I: 1 ,. ' M 1 uf. ' ' lg ' E, 1 l ll ll 4 lx ly ,fl tx l I 1 l I 1 , . 1 1 1 R i ' f l 1 ' f , . , L J 1 '- 'S J 9 1 f' ' 2 A-F We're from New Jersey and proud of it. Proud that: the first log cabin ever built was in New Jersey . . . ours was the only state to buy its land from the Indians . . . Washington crossed the Delaware here . . . in 1758 Princeton was our nation's capital . . . William Paterson presented the N. J. Plan at the Constitutional Convention . . . our state was the third to ratify the Federal Constitution and first to ratify the Bill of Rights . . . beneath the Palisades near Weehawken, Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton fought their famous duel . . . Sam- uel F. B. Morse and Alfred Vail tapped out the first telegraph message near Morris- town in 1838 . . . Thomas Edison invented the incandescent electric lamp at Menlo Park . . . our state was the first to supply the ori- ginal inhabitants of America with a reser- vation . . . the first Colonial Bank was es- tablished in New Jersey in 1688 . . . the well known writer James Fenimore Cooper was born in Burlington . . . New Jersey advocat- ed Thanksgiving as a national holiday in 1789 . . . Woodrow Wilson, our 28th presi- dent, was born in New Jersey . . . citizen John Holland in 1881 launched the first suc- cessful submarine in the Passaic River . . . Opposite: Morven, Governor's mansiong McKonkey Ferry Houseg The Old Barracks. Courtesy of New Jersey Department of Consewuation and Economic Developement. ., 1,115 ,, ,