Jackson, New Jersey

Everything Jackson is known for

1 song mention this city 3 artists from here

Music in Jackson

Songs About Jackson

Kick In The Door
The Notorious B.I.G.
98%
"I got more rides than Great Adventure"

Artists From Jackson

B
Black Label Society
metal Pop: 65
J
Jackson Pines
folk Pop: 11
M
Madhavi Devi
folk Pop: 8

Rivers & Roads in Song near Jackson

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Jackson.

New Jersey Turnpike 4 songs Interstate 95 13 songs

History of Jackson

Willingboro's Carl Lewis RoadyGoat

Willingboro, a township in Burlington County, New Jersey, is the hometown of track-and-field legend Carl Lewis. Lewis grew up in Willingboro and competed for Willingboro High School before becoming one of the greatest Olympians in history. Across four Games — 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996 — he won nine Olympic gold medals and ten medals overall, including the long jump at four consecutive Olympics. At the 1984 Los Angeles Games he took four golds in a single Olympics, matching Jesse Owens. The International Olympic Committee later named him Sportsman of the Century.

17.4 mi away

The Toynbee Tiles: Philadelphia's Sidewalk Mystery RoadyGoat

1983

The Toynbee Tiles are dozens of small handmade plaques pressed flat into the asphalt of Center City Philadelphia, most clustered along Chestnut Street, with copies found in roughly two dozen other U.S. cities. Each carries a version of the same cryptic text: "TOYNBEE IDEA / IN MOVIE '2001 / RESURRECT DEAD / ON PLANET JUPITER." They began appearing in Philadelphia around 1983, and for decades no one knew who made them. The 2011 documentary "Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles," which won the U.S. Documentary directing award at Sundance, builds the case that the maker was a reclusive South Philadelphia man who dropped the tiles through a hole cut in his car floor, letting traffic press them into the road. He was never caught. Many original tiles have since been paved over and survive only in photographs. (Sources: Wikipedia; Paste; spottedbylocals.)

RoadyGoat → · 19.9 mi away

Wharton State Forest (Pine Barrens)

1735

The Pine Barrens cover 1.1 million acres of dense forest in southern New Jersey, home to unique ecology and the legend of the Jersey Devil.

7.7 mi away

Independence Hall

1732

Where the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution were debated and signed.

19.4 mi away

Battleship New Jersey Museum, Camden

1942

The USS New Jersey, the most decorated battleship in U.S. Navy history, is now a museum ship on the Camden waterfront.

18.2 mi away

Walnut Street Prison

Walnut Street Prison was a city jail and penitentiary house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1790 to 1838. Legislation calling for establishment of the jail was passed in 1773 to relieve overcrowdi

Wikipedia → · 19.1 mi away

Old St. Joseph's Church

Old St. Joseph's Church is a church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was the first Roman Catholic church in the city. The church was founded in 1733; the current building was dedicated in 1839.

Wikipedia → · 19.1 mi away

Friends' Almshouse of Philadelphia

The Friends' Almshouse of Philadelphia was founded in 1713 by the city's Quaker leadership to help destitute members of the Society of Friends, although people of other creeds were sometimes admitted.

Wikipedia → · 19.2 mi away

Things to Do in Jackson

historical 21.1 mi away
Eastern State Penitentiary

Al Capone's cell. America's most haunted prison now a crumbling gothic ruin.

Everything Near Jackson

111 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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