Portal:New England

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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 Atlantic Ocean is to the east and southeast, and Long Island Sound is to the southwest. Boston is New England's largest city, as well as 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 Puritan Pilgrims established Plymouth Colony, the second successful English settlement in America, following the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia founded in 1607. Ten years later, more 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 in America. (Full article...)

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The north facade of the Rhode Island State House in Providence

Providence is the capital of, and the most populous city in, Rhode Island, and one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the estimated third-largest city in the New England region. Despite the city proper only having an estimated population of 178,042 as of 2010, it anchors the 37th largest metropolitan population in the country. With an estimated MSA population of 1,600,856, it exceeds that of Rhode Island itself by about 60% due to its reaching into southern Massachusetts. Situated at the mouth of the Providence River, at the head of Narragansett Bay, the city's small footprint is crisscrossed by seemingly erratic streets and contains a rapidly changing demographic. Providence was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful Providence", which he believed was responsible for revealing such a haven for him and his followers to settle. One of the first American cities to industrialize, Providence became noted for its jewelry and silverware industry. Today, the city's economy has shifted into the service industries, though it still retains significant manufacturing activity. (Full article...)

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Portrait of Chester A. Arthur, 1882

Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st President of the United States. Becoming President after the assassination of President James A. Garfield, Arthur struggled to overcome suspicions of his beginnings as a politician from the New York City Republican machine, succeeding at that task by embracing the cause of civil service reform. His advocacy for, and enforcement of, the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act was the centerpiece of his administration.

Born in Fairfield, Vermont, Arthur grew up in upstate New York and practiced law in New York City. He devoted much of his time to Republican politics and quickly rose in the political machine run by New York Senator Roscoe Conkling. Appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant to the lucrative and politically powerful post of Collector of the Port of New York in 1871, Arthur was an important supporter of Conkling and the Stalwart faction of the Republican Party. In 1878 he was replaced by the new president, Rutherford B. Hayes, who was trying to reform the federal patronage system in New York. When James Garfield won the Republican nomination for President in 1880, Arthur was nominated for Vice President to balance the ticket by adding an eastern Stalwart to it. (Full article...)

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Kennedy's Presidential Portrait

John F. Kennedy

Credit: Aaron Shikler (1970)

Massachusetts native and former President John F. Kennedy's posthumous presidential portrait

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Image 1Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 21. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 35. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 4A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 5Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 610. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 7Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 8Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 9Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 10Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 117. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 12An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 13The 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 14The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 15An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 16A 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 17The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 183. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 194. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 20A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 21World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 22Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 23The 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 246. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 25The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 26Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 27Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 28Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 298. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 30Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 31Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 32Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 33Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 34The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 35First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 36A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 37Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 38Boston'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 39New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 40Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 412. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 42A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 43Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 44A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 45New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 46Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 47Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 48New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 49Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 50A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 51Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 52The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 539. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 54Largest 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 55A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)

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... that Bernie Sanders was the first socialist mayor in New England since Jasper McLevy?
... that the Chippewa have smoked the root of the New England aster in pipes to attract game?
... that the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?
... that radio station WNLC in New London, Connecticut, was off the air for three weeks after the 1938 New England hurricane destroyed its tower and flooded the transmitter building?
... 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 Rockstar New England is based in Andover, Massachusetts, because it is the founder's "favorite place"?
... 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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Flag of New Hampshire

New Hampshire
Incorporated 1776
Co-ordinates 44°N 71.5°W

New Hampshire, named after the southern English county of Hampshire, is the 5th least extensive and the 9th least populous of the 50 U.S. states.

It became the first post-colonial sovereign nation in the Americas when it broke off from Great Britain in January 1776, and six months later was one of the original thirteen states that founded the United States of America. In June 1788, it became the ninth state to ratify the United States Constitution, bringing that document into effect. New Hampshire was the first U.S. state to have its own state constitution.

It is known internationally for the New Hampshire primary, the first primary in the U.S. presidential election cycle. Concord is the state capital, while Manchester is the largest city in the state. It has no general sales tax, nor is personal income (other than interest and dividends) taxed at either the state or local level. (Full article...)

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