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Location of New England (in red) in the United States
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 , comprising the Boston–Worcester–Providence Combined Statistical Area, houses more than half 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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Gettysburg memorial to the 22nd Massachusetts
The
22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an
infantry regiment in the
Union army during the
American Civil War . The 22nd Massachusetts was organized by
Senator Henry Wilson (future
Vice-President during the
Ulysses Grant administration) and was therefore known as "Henry Wilson's Regiment." It was formed in
Boston, Massachusetts , and established on September 28, 1861, for a term of three years.
Arriving in Washington in October 1861, became part of the Army of the Potomac , with which it would be associated for its entire term of service. The regiment saw its first action during the Siege of Yorktown in April 1862. Their worst casualties in terms of percentages took place during the Battle of Gettysburg (memorial pictured) . The 22nd was especially proficient in skirmish drill and was frequently deployed in that capacity throughout the war. (Full article... )
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... )
Connecticut native Ernest Borgnine upon the honorary promotion to Chief Petty Officer Credit: Mark D. Faram, USN (2004)
The following are images from various New England-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 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 2 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 4 Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in
Concord, Massachusetts . (from
Culture of New England )
Image 5 Southeastern New England is home to a number of
Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from
New England )
Image 6 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 9 Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from
New England )
Image 10 Wes Anderson 's
Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from
New England )
Image 11 The
White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the
Appalachian Mountains . (from
New England )
Image 12 Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from
History of New England )
Image 13 Alumni Hall at
Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the
New Hampshire primary . (from
New England )
Image 14 A portion of the north-central
Pioneer Valley in
Sunderland, Massachusetts (from
New England )
Image 15 The Hartford headquarters of
Aetna is housed in a 1931
Colonial Revival building. (from
New England )
Image 16 Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in
Vergennes, Vermont , are popular in New England towns. (from
Culture of New England )
Image 17 Classic New England Congregationalist church in
Peacham, Vermont (from
Culture of New England )
Image 18 Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from
New England )
Image 20 An English map of New England
c. 1670 depicts the area around modern
Portsmouth, New Hampshire . (from
New England )
Image 23 Phillips Exeter Academy and
Phillips Academy at Andover are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from
New England )
Image 24 New England is home to four of the eight
Ivy League universities. Pictured here is
Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from
New England )
Image 25 Ethnic origins in New England (from
New England )
Image 29 World's largest Irish flag in
Boston . People who claim
Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from
New England )
Image 30 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 32 Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from
History of New England )
Image 34 Köppen climate types in New England (from
New England )
Image 35 A plowed field in
Bethel, Vermont (from
New England )
Image 36 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 37 The New Haven system (from
History of New England )
Image 38 New England
regionalist poet
Robert Frost (from
New England )
Image 39 Cambridge, Massachusetts , has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from
New England )
Image 41 Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from
New England )
Image 45 The
Port of Portland in
Portland, Maine , is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from
New England )
Image 46 A 1638 engraving depicting the
Mystic massacre (from
New England )
Image 47 Autumn in New England , watercolor,
Maurice Prendergast , c. 1910–1913 (from
New England )
Image 50 A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from
History of New England )
Image 51 Soldier and explorer
John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from
New England )
Flag of Connecticut
Connecticut Incorporated 1776
Co-ordinates 41.6°N 72.7°W
Connecticut is the
3rd least extensive , the
29th most populous , and
4th most densely populated of the
50 United States . Called the
Constitution State ,
Nutmeg State, and "The Land of Steady Habits", Connecticut was influential in the development of the
federal government of the United States.
The first major settlements were established in the 1630s by the English. Thomas Hooker led a band of followers overland from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded what would become the Connecticut Colony ; other settlers from Massachusetts founded the Saybrook Colony and the New Haven Colony . In 1662, the three colonies were merged under a royal charter , making Connecticut a crown colony . This colony was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution . (Full article... )
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