Eight things you didn't know about New Jersey

7. What's with the flaming zeppelin? Yes, the German-built craft, the Hindenburg, crashed and burned in 1937 while landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Manchester Township , N.J., killing 36 people. The state was a hotbed of nationwide news in the '30s, including the kidnapping of the son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh in 1932 in East Amwell Township , N.J.
7. What's with the flaming zeppelin?

Yes, the German-built craft, the Hindenburg, crashed and burned in 1937 while landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Manchester Township , N.J., killing 36 people. The state was a hotbed of nationwide news in the '30s, including the kidnapping of the son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh in 1932 in East Amwell Township , N.J.

(Text by David Beard, Boston.com staff; AP Photo/Murray Becker)