NEW JERSEY: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Princeton University, founded in 1746, was the fourth college in the colonies. First was Harvard, then the College of William and Mary, then Yale, and then Princeton.   What's so cool about Princeton? Its alumni include:

41 Nobel laureates

21 National Medal of Science winners

14 Fields Medalists

10 Turing Award laureates

5 National Humanities Medal winners

209 Rhodes Scholars

126 Marshall Scholars

2 U.S. Presidents (James Madison, Woodrow Wilson)

1 U.S. Vice President (Aaron Burr)

1 First Lady (Michelle Obama)

12 U.S. Supreme Court Justices

Bunches of members of Congress and Cabinet members

Lots of other famous people (e.g., Jeff Bezos, Jimmy Stewart, 

Brooke Shields, Lee Iacocca, Alan Turing)

Just walking around campus made us feel smart (at least as smart as this little boy trying to get the last drop out of the barrel):
 

On the Princeton University Campus itself, we admired the tower of the John D. Rockefeller College (named after JDR III, brother of Nelson Rockefeller, and yes, he was an alumnus, class of 1929):

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY: TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND THE PRINCETON BATTLE MONUMENT

After our sightseeing trip around Wilmington, Delaware, we moved on to Princeton, New Jersey. We had driven through New Jersey on a prior trip, but he hadn't stopped anywhere. New Jersey is only 170 miles long and 70 miles wide, the 4th smallest state in the Union behind Rhode Island, Delaware, and Connecticut. However, with 8.8 million people, it is 11th for population, making it the MOST DENSELY POPULATED STATE in the United States! I wouldn't have guessed that.

Before going to Princeton University, the purpose of our New Jersey detour, we took in the city of Princeton itself, population 30,000 (8,000 of which are students at Princeton University). I recently learned that one of Princeton's sister cities is Colmar, France.

One of the dominant buildings in town (not ON the campus, but nearby) is Trinity Episcopal Church:

The first part of the church was built in the Gothic Revival style in 1870, and a few additions and changes were made in the early 20th century.