When you love where you live, you brag about it. There are so many great places in New Jersey with a history that others may not know about, but those who live there take great pride in telling the history to everyone that they know.

That was my inspiration when I posted on my social media and asked to my listeners, "Give me a piece of history or cool story about your New Jersey town." There were so many responses that I decided to turn them into not just one post, but three.

Having already written "Cool things about your Central Jersey town that we should know about," we now focus on "Cool things about your South Jersey town." By "South Jersey" I'm talking about the counties below I-195 that include Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem.

If you live there, you may already know these things. If not, you'll learn something cool. Here goes:

Bruce Willis (Photo: Rich Fury, Getty Images)
Bruce Willis (Photo: Rich Fury, Getty Images)
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We have Bruce Willis From Carneys Point/ Penns Grove NJ

Dutch J Greensweight

Campbell's Soup (Photo: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images)
Campbell's Soup (Photo: Justin Sullivan, Getty Images)
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Campbell's soup world headquarters in Camden

Justin Morris

Carl and Carol Lewis (Photo: Mike Powell, Getty Images)
Carl and Carol Lewis (Photo: Mike Powell, Getty Images)
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Olympians Carl and Carol Lewis are from my hometown Willingboro.

Melynda B. Ulrich

3D Rendering of Mount Holly (Photo: Google Maps, Canva)
3D Rendering of Mount Holly (Photo: Google Maps, Canva)
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Barbara Parks (Junie B. Jones children's books), Franco Harris, Shaun Bradley, Irving Fryar, and Pat Fidelia all went to RVRHS in Mt Holly. Cindy Birdsong (Supremes) and Raymond Forchion (actor/director) were born in Mt Holly. Elvis’s in-laws (Priscilla’s parents) lived in Mt Holly - I went to school with her brother Jeff. Mt Holly served as a temporary capital for New Jersey during the Revolutionary War. Mt Holly served as a stop on the underground railroad.

Ascenden College Cuonseling

Atlantic City Boardwalk (Photo: Mark Makela, Getty Images)
Atlantic City Boardwalk (Photo: Mark Makela, Getty Images)
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On June 26th 1870, the worlds first Boardwalk opened in Atlantic City. Measuring 5.5 miles long, it still remains the worlds longest Boardwalk over 150 years after its construction.

Matt Bridgestone

(Photo: Heather Mount, Unsplash)
(Photo: Heather Mount, Unsplash)
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the mud that is rubbed on every baseball in MLB is from a creek in a South Jersey town,
only five people in the world know the exact location.

Corey Smith

Aerial view of Pine Valley Golf Club in Pine Valley (Photo: Google Maps)
Aerial view of Pine Valley Golf Club in Pine Valley (Photo: Google Maps)
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Pine Valley Golf Course in Pine Valley, NJ is consistently rated the #1 golf course in the USA by the experts at Golf Digest. (And they should know!)

Kevin Kearney

Legacy Vacation Resort Brigantine Beach in Brigantine (Photo: Google Maps)
Legacy Vacation Resort Brigantine Beach in Brigantine (Photo: Google Maps)
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I’m on vacation in Brigantine. Facing the building where Al Capone stayed many times.

Lynn Miller

Aerial view of Balloon Landing Site in Deptford (Photo: Google Maps)
Aerial view of Balloon Landing Site in Deptford (Photo: Google Maps)
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Deptford. The first hot air balloon landed here, and we're freaking proud of it! The landing site is now in a grassy area behind a Walmart.

Chris Orion

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