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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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View of the green looking south

The Green is a grass-covered field and common space at the center of Dartmouth College, an Ivy League university located in Hanover, New Hampshire. It was among the first parcels of land obtained by the college upon its founding in 1769, and is the only creation of the 18th century remaining at the center of the campus. After being cleared of pine trees, it initially served as a pasture and later as an athletic field for college sporting events. Today, it is a central location for rallies, celebrations, and demonstrations, and serves as a general, all-purpose recreation area. The college describes the Green as "historic" and as the "emotional center" of the institution. (Full article...)

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John Mayer performing at the Crossroads Guitar Festival

John Mayer is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Originally from Connecticut, he briefly attended Berklee College of Music. His first two studio albums, Room for Squares and Heavier Things, did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status. In 2003, he won a Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Grammy for "Your Body Is a Wonderland". The blues influence can be seen on his album Continuum, released in September 2006. Mayer won Best Pop Vocal Album for Continuum and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Waiting on the World to Change" at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in 2007. (Full article...)

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Charles Pomeroy Stone

Credit: Unknown Photographer (1863)

Massachusetts native and Civil War General Charles Pomeroy Stone

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The following are images from various New England-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 2World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 3New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 410. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 51. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 69. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 7Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 8Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 9Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 10Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 11New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 12Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 13Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 14Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 15Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 16Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 17The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 18The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 19A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 20New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 21Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 22The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 23Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 24A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 25Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 26A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 27Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 28A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 296. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 304. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 31Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 32A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 338. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 34Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 35A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 36Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 37Largest 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 38The 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 39Boston'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 40Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 41Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 42The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 43Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 44The 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 453. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 467. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 47Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 482. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 49A 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 50A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 51Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 52An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 53First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 545. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 55The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)

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... 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 tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?
... that Rockstar New England is based in Andover, Massachusetts, because it is the founder's "favorite place"?
... that New England Revolution manager Bruce Arena led the club to a record-breaking 73 points in the 2021 season?
... 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?

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Flag of Vermont

Vermont
Incorporated 1791
Co-ordinates 44°N 72.7°W

Vermont is the 6th least extensive and the 2nd least populous of the 50 United States. It is the only New England state not bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Lake Champlain forms half of Vermont's western border, which it shares with the state of New York.

Originally inhabited by two major Native American tribes, much of the territory that is now Vermont was claimed by France during its early colonial period. France ceded the territory to the Kingdom of Great Britain after being defeated in 1763 in the French and Indian War. For many years, the nearby colonies, especially New Hampshire and New York, disputed control of the area. Settlers who held land titles granted by these colonies were opposed by the Green Mountain Boys militia, which eventually prevailed in creating an independent state, the Vermont Republic. Founded in 1777 during the Revolutionary War, the republic lasted for fourteen years. Vermont is one of seventeen U.S. states (along with Texas, Hawaii, the brief Republic of West Florida, and each of the original Thirteen Colonies) to have had a sovereign government in the past. In 1791, Vermont joined the United States as the 14th state, the first outside the original 13 Colonies. It abolished slavery while still independent, and upon joining the Union became the first state to have done so. (Full article...)