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New England is a region consisting of 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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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. (Full article...)

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Charles Pomeroy Stone

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Massachusetts native and Civil War General Charles Pomeroy Stone

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Image 1A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 24. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 3A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 49. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 5New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 6Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 7The 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 81. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 9Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 107. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 11Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 12Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 13Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 14An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 15Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 16Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 1710. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 182. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 19Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 20A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 21A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 22A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 23A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 24Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 25Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 26Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 27Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 28Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 29New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 30The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 31Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 32Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 33Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 348. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 35First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 365. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 376. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 38Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 393. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 40World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 41Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 42Largest 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 43Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 44Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 45The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 46Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 47Boston'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 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 49The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 50A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 51The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 52The 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 53The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 54New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 55An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)

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Flag of Rhode Island

Rhode Island
Incorporated 1776
Co-ordinates 41.7°N 71.5°W

Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is the smallest in area, the 8th least populous, but the 2nd most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states.

Rhode Island was the first of the original Thirteen Colonies to declare independence from British rule, declaring itself independent on May 4, 1776, two months before any other colony. The State was also the last of the thirteen original colonies to ratify the United States Constitution.

Rhode Island's official nickname is "The Ocean State," a reference to the State's geography, since Rhode Island has several large bays and inlets that amount to about fourteen (14) percent of its total area. Its land area is 1,045 square miles (2706 km²), but its total area is significantly larger. (Full article...)