East Jersey

East Jersey

East Jersey connects to 1637 places across 10 topics through 50 Bunkabop connections, spanning colonial government and a state prison with reach into music and film. Following the Treaty of Westminster, New Jersey divided into East Jersey and West Jersey as separate political divisions before reuniting as a royal colony in 1702. East Jersey State Prison in Rahway is linked to the Lifers Group, a hip hop group formed there in 1991 that recorded with Hollywood Records, and the prison served as a filming location for The Hurricane in 1999.

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