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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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Boston is the capital of Massachusetts and its largest city, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper, covering 48.43 square miles (125.43 square km), had a population of 617,594 according to the 2010 United States census. Boston is also the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.5 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region is home to 7.6 million people, making it the fifth-largest combined statistical area in the United States.

In 1630, Puritan colonists from England founded the city on the Shawmut Peninsula. During the late 18th century, Boston was the location of several major events during the American Revolution, including the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. Several early battles of the American Revolution, such as the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston, occurred within the city and surrounding areas. Through land reclamation and municipal annexation, Boston has expanded beyond the peninsula. After American independence was attained Boston became a major shipping port and manufacturing center, and its rich history helps attract many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone attracting over 20 million every year. The city was the site of several firsts, including the United States' first public school, Boston Latin School, and the first subway system in the United States. (Full article...)

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Portrait of George Washington Dixon, c. 1836

George Washington Dixon was an American singer, stage actor, and newspaper editor. He rose to prominence as a blackface performer (possibly the first American to do so) after performing "Coal Black Rose", "Zip Coon", and similar songs. He later turned to a career in journalism, during which he earned the enmity of members of the upper class for his frequent allegations against them. By 1835, Dixon considered journalism to be his primary vocation. His first major paper was Dixon's Daily Review, which he published from Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1835. He followed this in 1836 with Dixon's Saturday Night Express, published in Boston. (Full article...)

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Robert F. Kennedy

Credit: Warren K. Leffler (1963)

Massachusetts native and then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy speaking to a crowd of African Americans and whites through a megaphone outside the Justice Department

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

Image 1A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 2Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 3Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 4Boston'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 5Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 6Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 7An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 8The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 9A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 10A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 114. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 12Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 13Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 14A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 15The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 169. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 17Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 183. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 19Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 20The 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 21Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 22Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 23Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 24Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 25Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 26A 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 27Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 28The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 291. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 302. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 315. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 327. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 33First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 34Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 35Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 36An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 37Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 388. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 39World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 4010. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 41Largest 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 42A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 43Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 44New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 45The 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 46Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 47The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 48A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 49New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 50The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 51A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 52Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 53New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 546. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 55Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)

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Maine
Incorporated 1820
Co-ordinates 45.5°N 69°W

Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost portion of New England. It is known for its scenery—its jagged, mostly rocky coastline, its low, rolling mountains, its heavily forested interior and picturesque waterways—as well as for its seafood cuisine, especially lobsters and clams.

As Maine entered the 18th century, only a half dozen European settlements survived. Patriot and British forces contended for Maine's territory during the American Revolution and the War of 1812. Maine was part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts until 1820, when it voted to secede from Massachusetts. On March 15, 1820, it was admitted to the Union as the 23rd state under the Missouri Compromise. Maine is the 39th most extensive and the 41st most populous of the 50 United States. (Full article...)

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