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Vintage photos of N.J. 'by the numbers'

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New Jersey has more horses per square mile than any other state.

New Jersey by the numbers:

* In 2013, there were 6,081,386 licensed drivers in New Jersey.

* New Jersey's State House in Trenton is the second-oldest still in use in the country. The oldest is in Maryland.

* There are 127 miles of coastline along the Atlantic Ocean for folks to go 'down the shore' in New Jersey.

* New Jersey has more horses per square mile than any other state.

* New Jersey also has the highest human population density in the U.S., an average of 1,030 people per square mile, which is 13 times the national average.

MORE: Vintage photos around New Jersey

* New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment area outside of the Middle Eastern countries.

* The New Jersey Spoon Museum at Lambert Castle in Paterson features over 5,400 spoons from every state and almost every country.

* Modern paleontology, the science of studying dinosaur fossils, began in 1858 with the discovery of the first nearly complete skeleton of a dinosaur in Haddonfield.

Here's a gallery of vintage photos that offer other interesting numbers attached to NJ. Make sure you have captions enabled for all of the information.

Greg Hatala may be reached at ghatala@starledger.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregHatala. Find The Star-Ledger on Facebook.


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