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New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick to the northeast and Quebec to the north. The Gulf of Maine and Atlantic Ocean are to the east and southeast, and Long Island Sound is to the southwest. Boston is New England's largest city and the capital of Massachusetts. Greater Boston is the largest metropolitan area, with nearly a third of New England's population; this area includes Worcester, Massachusetts, the second-largest city in New England, Manchester, New Hampshire, the largest city in New Hampshire, and Providence, Rhode Island, the capital of and largest city in Rhode Island.

In 1620, the Pilgrims established Plymouth Colony, the second successful settlement in British America after the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, founded in 1607. Ten years later, Puritans established Massachusetts Bay Colony north of Plymouth Colony. Over the next 126 years, people in the region fought in four French and Indian Wars until the English colonists and their Iroquois allies defeated the French and their Algonquian allies. (Full article...)

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Satellite image of Carrie near Massachusetts

Tropical Storm Carrie was a strong tropical storm that affected the East Coast of the United States in early September 1972. The third tropical cyclone of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Carrie formed on August 29 from a complex sequence of meteorological events starting with the emergence of a tropical wave into the Atlantic in the middle of August. Tracking nominally northward throughout its life, Carrie reached an initial peak intensity as a moderate tropical storm before nearly weakening back into tropical depression status. The storm began to reintensify owing to baroclinic processes after turning toward the northwest; its winds of 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) eclipsed the cyclone's previous maximum strength as it was transitioning into an extratropical system. The extratropical remnants of Carrie skirted eastern New England before making landfall in Maine on September 4 and dissipating over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence over the next two days. (Full article...)

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This portrait, first published in 1885, was alleged to be a 1625 likeness of Standish, although its authenticity has never been proven

Myles Standish was an English military officer hired by the Pilgrims as military advisor for Plymouth Colony. One of the Mayflower passengers, Standish played a leading role in the administration and defense of Plymouth Colony from its inception. On February 17, 1621, the Plymouth Colony militia elected him as its first commander and continued to re-elect him to that position for the remainder of his life. Standish served as an agent of Plymouth Colony in England, as assistant governor, and as treasurer of Plymouth Colony. He was also one of the first settlers and founders of the town of Duxbury, Massachusetts. (Full article...)

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Edgar Allan Poe

Credit: W.S. Hartshorn (1848)

Boston native Edgar Allan Poe, noted author, poet, editor, and critic

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Image 16. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 2Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 3Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 4New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 5Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 6Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 7Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 8A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 9A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 10A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 114. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 12Boston's Symphony Hall is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—the second-oldest of the Big Five American symphony orchestras. (from New England)
Image 13Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 14Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 157. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 16Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 173. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 189. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 19A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 20The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 21First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 22Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 23Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 24Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 258. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 26The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 27An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 28World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 295. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 30Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 3110. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 322. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 33Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 34Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 35New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 36The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 37A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 38Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 39Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 40Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 41The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 42The MBTA Commuter Rail serves eastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, radiating from downtown Boston, with planned service to New Hampshire. The CTrail system operates the Shore Line East and Hartford Line, covering coastal Connecticut, Hartford, and Springfield, Massachusetts. (from New England)
Image 43Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 44The New England Ensign, one of several flags historically associated with New England. This flag was reportedly used by colonial merchant ships sailing out of New England ports, 1686 – c. 1737. (from New England)
Image 451. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 46A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 47Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 48A political and geographical map of New England shows the coastal plains in the southeast, and hills, mountains and valleys in the west and the north. (from New England)
Image 49Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 50Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 51Largest self-reported ancestry groups in New England. Americans of Irish descent form a plurality in most of Massachusetts, while Americans of English descent form a plurality in much of the central parts of Vermont and New Hampshire as well as nearly all of Maine. (from New England)
Image 52New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 53A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 54An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 55The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)

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... that the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?
... that the Chippewa have smoked the root of the New England aster in pipes to attract game?
... that the first railroad in New England was powered by horses?
... that Benjamin Tompson's poem "Harvardine Quils" called for writers in New England to memorialize the loss of "whole towns and Churches" in King Philip's War?
... that New England Revolution manager Bruce Arena led the club to a record-breaking 73 points in the 2021 season?
... that Cora Agnes Benneson, one of the first female lawyers in New England, was rejected by Harvard Law School because "the equipments were too limited to make suitable provision for receiving women"?
... that the first time the New England Revolution competed in an international competition, they played their "home" match at their opponent's stadium?
... that Clayton Weishuhn set the New England Patriots single-season record of 229 tackles in 1983, a record that still stands?

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... that among Connecticut's contributions to the American Civil War are the Henry rifle and the song "Marching Through Georgia"?
... that The Cyclone at Revere Beach was the world's first roller coaster to reach 100 feet (30 m) in height?
... that American football star Albie Booth became famous after he scored all of Yale’s points in a 1929 upset win over Army?
... that Frye's Measure Mill is the only remaining water-powered measure mill in the United States after some 150 years of operations?
... that, in 2009, Anne Donahue was one of only five Republicans in the Vermont House of Representatives to vote in favor of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in the state?

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Flag of Maine

Maine
Incorporated 1820
Co-ordinates 45.5°N 69°W

Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost portion of New England. It is known for its scenery—its jagged, mostly rocky coastline, its low, rolling mountains, its heavily forested interior and picturesque waterways—as well as for its seafood cuisine, especially lobsters and clams.

As Maine entered the 18th century, only a half dozen European settlements survived. Patriot and British forces contended for Maine's territory during the American Revolution and the War of 1812. Maine was part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts until 1820, when it voted to secede from Massachusetts. On March 15, 1820, it was admitted to the Union as the 23rd state under the Missouri Compromise. Maine is the 39th most extensive and the 41st most populous of the 50 United States. (Full article...)

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