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Location of New England (in red) in the United States
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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Female right whale with calf
Right whales are three
species of large
baleen whales consisting of the
genus Eubalaena in the family
Balaenidae of
order Cetacea . Their bodies are very dark gray or black and rotund.
A popular explanation for the name "right whales" is that they were the "right" ones to hunt, as they float when killed and often swim within sight of shore. They are quite docile, and do not tend to shy away from approaching boats. As such, they were hunted nearly to extinction during the active years of the whaling industry. This origin is apocryphal. In his history of American whaling, Eric Jay Dolin writes: "Despite this highly plausible rationale, nobody actually knows how the right whale got its name. The earliest references to the right whale offer no indication why it was called that, and some who have studied the issue point out that the word 'right' in this context might just as likely be intended "to connote 'true' or 'proper,' meaning typical of the group. (Full article... )
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Portrait of Samuel Adams by John Singleton Copley
Samuel Adams was a
Massachusetts statesman, politician, writer, and
political philosopher , and one of the
Founding Fathers of the United States . Adams was instrumental in garnering the support of the colonies in rebellion against
Great Britain , ultimately resulting in the
American Revolution . He was also one of the key architects of the principles of American
republicanism that shaped
American political culture . Adams organized protests against the British, including the
Boston Tea Party in 1773, and participated in the
Continental Congress . He also advocated for the adoption of the
Declaration of Independence at the
Second Continental Congress . Following the American Revolution, Adams helped draft the
Articles of Confederation . After the war ended, he ran for the
House of Representatives in the
1st United States Congressional election, but was unsuccessful in his bid. He was elected
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1789 and after
John Hancock 's death in 1793, Adams served as the acting governor, until he was elected governor in January of the following year. He served in that position until June 1797 when he decided to retire from politics. (
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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Boston
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Image 1 The Hartford headquarters of
Aetna is housed in a 1931
Colonial Revival building. (from
New England )
Image 2 An English map of New England
c. 1670 depicts the area around modern
Portsmouth, New Hampshire . (from
New England )
Image 5 Phillips Exeter Academy and
Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from
New England )
Image 6 Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from
History of New England )
Image 7 A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from
History of New England )
Image 9 A 1638 engraving depicting the
Mystic massacre (from
New England )
Image 10 Soldier and explorer
John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from
New England )
Image 12 The
White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the
Appalachian Mountains . (from
New England )
Image 13 The New Haven system (from
History of New England )
Image 14 A portion of the north-central
Pioneer Valley in
Sunderland, Massachusetts (from
New England )
Image 16 Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in
Concord, Massachusetts . (from
Culture of New England )
Image 18 Classic New England Congregationalist church in
Peacham, Vermont (from
Culture of New England )
Image 19 Ethnic origins in New England (from
New England )
Image 20 The
Port of Portland in
Portland, Maine , is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from
New England )
Image 22 Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in
Vergennes, Vermont , are popular in New England towns. (from
Culture of New England )
Image 24 A plowed field in
Bethel, Vermont (from
New England )
Image 26 Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from
New England )
Image 28 The
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 29 The 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 30 Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from
History of New England )
Image 32 Flag of New England flying in
Massachusetts . New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from
New England )
Image 34 Southeastern New England is home to a number of
Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from
New England )
Image 35 New England
regionalist poet
Robert Frost (from
New England )
Image 36 Cambridge, Massachusetts , has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from
New England )
Image 37 Autumn in New England , watercolor,
Maurice Prendergast , c. 1910–1913 (from
New England )
Image 38 Boston'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 39 Largest 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 44 New England is home to four of the eight
Ivy League universities. Pictured here is
Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from
New England )
Image 45 Alumni Hall at
Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the
New Hampshire primary . (from
New England )
Image 46 Köppen climate types in New England (from
New England )
Image 49 World's largest Irish flag in
Boston . People who claim
Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from
New England )
Image 51 A 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 52 Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from
New England )
Image 53 Wes Anderson 's
Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from
New England )
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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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