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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, 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...)

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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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Ernest Borgnine

Credit: Mark D. Faram, USN (2004)

Connecticut native Ernest Borgnine upon the honorary promotion to Chief Petty Officer

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Image 1Boston'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 2The 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 39. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 4Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 5Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 6Largest 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 76. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 810. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 9Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 10Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 11The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 12Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 13Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 14A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 15The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 16Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 17Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 18Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 194. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 20An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 21A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 22Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 23Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy at Andover are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 24New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 25Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 26New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 271. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 28A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 29World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 30A 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 312. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 32Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 33An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 34Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 35A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 36The 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 37The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 38New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 39Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 403. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 41Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 428. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 43Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 447. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 45The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 46A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 47Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 48A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 49The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 50A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 51Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 52Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 535. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 54Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 55First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)

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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...)