What Each State is Famous For According to J

The United States of America

Delaware was the first state. Isn't that nice?

Pennsylvania is famous for having an important city called Philadelphia that's not the capital of anything.

New Jersey is known as the Garden State, but it's Georgia that is known for it's peaches, onions and peanuts (and marble stone). 

Georgia is known as The Peach State, because the Onion State doesn't sound that good. 

    -Fun fact- On the Georgia state coin, Georgia is shaped wronged. 

Connecticut is famous for  the great 19th century nutmeg dispute that's still disputed today.

Massachusetts, the Bay State, is famous for the first place pilgrims landed, oh, and for having strong feelings against taxed tea and witches.

Maryland is called the Free State because a newspaper nicknamed it that.

South Carolina is famous for having a Palmetto on their flag, a Revolutionary Era Palmetto fort, and for being the Palmetto state, and... peaches! So, why is Georgia the Peach state when South Caronia grows more peaches? (Reread Georgia's)

New Hampshire is known for purple finches, purple lilacs, white birches, white granite and the White Mountains...which are green.

Virginia is famous for being the place where the most presidents of the United State were born. Eight out of Forty Five!

New York is called the Empire State but nobody knows why.

North Carolina, the Tar Heel state, is famous for carnivorous plants. They even have a State Carnivorous Plant, the Venus Fly Trap.

Rhode Island is the smallest state but has the longest official name: The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

Tennessee is famous for volunteering, music, and never getting lonely. It's surround be eight states after all. Fun fact- part of Tennessee should actually have been part of Georgia.

Ohio is the only state that doesn't have a rectangular shaped flag. And it's also famous for not officially being a state until 1953.

Ohio also has a house that looks like a UFO.
This UFO is at the National Museum of the US Air Force.

Louisiana is famous for having lots and lots of pelicans and for being the bayou state. What's a bayou? It is a body of water found in flat areas, basically nicer name for a swamp.

Indiana is nicknamed the Hoosier State, but like New York, nobody knows why.

Mississippi is famous for being hospitable. It's a very welcoming state.

Illinois is famous for being the land of Lincoln, even though he wasn't born there and the prairie state. Most of it is farms. The have a city, Chicago, nicknamed The Windy City. 

This library in Normal, IL, is anything but normal.

Alabama is famous for cotton and Yellow Hammers, which are birds, not actual hammers.

Maine is famous for being a vacation land where you can go to parks, eat lobster and see moose. A lot moose!  And pine trees!

Missouri is famous for being a big sandwich between a lot of states and for having a place called Kansas City that's not in Kansas.

Arkansas is not Ar-Kansas. It's capital, Little Rock, is the biggest city in Arkansas, so why is it called little rock?

Michigan is divided in two by the Great Lakes and it's lower peninsula is shaped like a giant mitten.

Florida is also a peninsula. It is famous for sunshine, oranges, beaches, and... COWS!  It has one of the largest cattle ranches in the United States. Desert Ranch is 10 times larger than Disney World. 

Texas belonged to Spain, then Mexico, then became it's own republic, then became the largest state. It's called the Lone Star State, because they like to do things their own way.

Iowa is famous for corn and a cat that lived in a library that lived in a small town and the cat's name was Dewey.

Wisconsin was made a state not because of milk, not because of cheese, but because of fur! Beaver fur!

California is famous for being the Golden State because of the whole gold rush thing even though most people didn't find any gold or left with about as much money as they started with.

Minnesota is famous for having more than 20,000 lakes.  Huh, and I though Michigan was the Great Lake state.

Oregon is famous for loving beavers, beaver hats, and for the only state flag that has two different sides, one of which, yes, is a beaver.

Kansas is famous for sunflowers, wheat, and tornados, but a tornado did never carry Dorothy to the Land of OZ.

West Virginia is famous for nice beautiful mountains and for cutting itself off from Virginia because of slavery. Hm, that history is less pretty than the mountains.

Nevada is famous for having lots of silver that would have belonged to Utah except nobody liked the Utah territory at the time Nevada was made a state and didn't want Utah to have the wealth.

Nebraska is famous for corn huskers and for its state capital being Lincoln, even though Lincoln wasn't born there and Illinois is the Lincoln state.

Colorado is famous being super colorful and basically being a 100th anniversary gift to the US.

North Dakota is super cold has lots of super cool tech jobs. It's also famous for having an international peace garden. Part of it is in North Dakota and part of it is in Canada.

South Dakota is famous for having Mount Rushmore, but it has no big city around Mount Rushmore. Hm, I wonder how that happened.

Montana is the big sky state. It has very little ninja warrior gyms, but a good ninja lives there. It's has the worst state motto ever, Gold and Silver, which led it to taking a big bite out of Idaho. It should have only gone to the Continental Divide, but it wanted Idaho Territory's gold.

Washington is confused with Washington DC. It is the Evergreen State which is super true. It is ever green. It rains a lot there. It's flag is the only flag that has a president on it, of course that president is George Washington, the first president, In case you didn't know, the state is named after him.

Idaho is famous for potatoes, waterfalls, and beautiful gems, including the star garnet. Which can only be found in Idaho or India.

Wyoming is famous for buffalo, cowboys, and equality. It was the first state to give women the right to vote.

Utah is famous for being a religious state, if fact, because religion delayed it's statehood, part of the territory was taken by Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, before it was made a state. If it kept all it's territory, it would have been bigger than Texas. Utah is also famous for having the California Gull as the state bird, because they ate crickets and saved the Mormon Pioneers from starvation. 

Oklahoma is famous for having lots of land the would have belonged to Native Americans except then other people took that land. Texas gave it its pan handle because they wanted to stay a slave state and had to be below the 36th parallel.

New Mexico is called Land of Enchantment and has lots and lots of cacti. 

Arizona is famous for the Grand Canyon and...copper! They mine more copper than any other state.

Grand Canyon

Alaska is one of the least populated state, strange because it is the biggest state. Most of Alaska is uninhabited land, meaning, nobody lives there.

Hawaii is famous for being the last state to join the union and is the only state to have another countries flag on their state flag (Britain's). Hawaii is known as the Aloha State. It means "Hello".

Territories

There are 5 inhabited territories of the US: Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands. They are all considered American citizens, excepts those that live in American Samoa. They are considered US nationals. They each get to elect a non-voting member of congress.

Bonus Trivia:

The state that never was: Part of Virginia wanted to break off and become the 14th colony and be called Transylvania. Instead of Transylvania we got Kentucky and Tennessee.

The Not State that declared war on the US: In the 1970's A small section of Illinois "seceded" from the United State and declared war! They named their new "state" Forgottonia. It was made from people who felt forgotten because they didn't get a highway and they lost their zip code. Today, they have a highway, but they still don't have their own zip code.  

The Not State that believes it is: The state of Jefferson is formed from part of Oregon and California. The people there totally believe it is a state. They even have their own state flag.

The states that want to be: Long Island wants to be it's own state. They also have a state flag. The people of Washington D.C also want to be a state. Because it is the capital, the people there don't have a state representative in congress.