A report on Vermont, New England and Interstate 93

Southern terminus of I-93 at I-95 in Canton, Massachusetts

Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England

Signs in the Financial District of Boston point toward Downtown Crossing, Chinatown, In-93, and I-90

The Old Constitution House at Windsor, where the Constitution of Vermont was adopted on July 8, 1777

Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616.

I-93 north approaching its southern interchange with I-293 and NH 101 in Manchester

A circa 1775 flag used by the Green Mountain Boys

A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre

Northbound lane of I-93/US 3 in Franconia Notch

The gold leaf dome of the neoclassical Vermont State House (Capitol) in Montpelier

An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Route of the original Central Artery, as well as other roadways affected by the Big Dig

1791 Act of Congress admitting Vermont into the Union

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.

Route of the new Central Artery after the Big Dig

Vermont in 1827. The county boundaries have since changed.

New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy

Map of Vermont showing cities, roads, and rivers

The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island

The South Bay Interchange (looking south) to the Southeast Expressway with Great Blue Hill visible in the background

Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912.

Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c.1910–1913

Western face of Camel's Hump Mountain (elevation 4079 ft).

Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies.

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.

Köppen climate types of Vermont, using 1991–2020 climate normals.

A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts

Silurian and Devonian stratigraphy of Vermont

The hermit thrush, the state bird of Vermont

The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains.

A proportional representation of Vermont exports, 2020

Fall foliage seen from Hogback Mountain, Wilmington

Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States.

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.

World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic group in New England.

Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves.

The Lyndon Institute, a high school in Lyndon, Vermont

The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England.

The University of Vermont
Old Mill, the oldest building of the university

The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building.

Vermont welcome sign in Addison on Route 17 just over the New York border over the Champlain Bridge

Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire

The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, in Vernon

A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont

The Vermont Supreme Court's building in Montpelier

Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC)

Vermont towns hold a March town meeting for voters to approve the town's budget and decide other matters. Marlboro voters meet in this building.

Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary.

Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and Representative Peter Welch greet supporters in 2017.

New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University.

Vermontasaurus sculpture in Post Mills, in 2010

Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century

Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity.

A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont

Boston's Symphony Hall is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—the second-oldest of the Big Five American symphony orchestras.

New England regionalist poet Robert Frost

Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island

A Hartford Line Train at Hartford Union Station

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.

Bill Russell and Red Auerbach of the Boston Celtics

The New England Patriots are the most popular professional sports team in New England.

The Middlebury College rowing team in the 2007 Head of the Charles Regatta

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the United States.

- Vermont

New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

- New England

Interstate 93 (I-93) is an Interstate Highway in the New England states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont in the United States.

- Interstate 93

I-93.svg Interstate 93 runs a short, 11 mi distance from the New Hampshire state line to its northern terminus in St. Johnsbury, where it intersects I-91. I-93 connects the Northeast Kingdom region of Vermont with the White Mountains region of New Hampshire, and points south.

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Major interstate highways traversing the region include I-95, I-93, I-91, I-89, I-84, and I-90 (the Massachusetts Turnpike).

- New England

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Connecticut River

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View of Springfield on the Connecticut River by Alvan Fisher (Brooklyn Museum)

View of the City of Hartford, Connecticut by William Havell

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow (1836) by Thomas Cole

The Memorial Bridge across the Connecticut River at Springfield, Massachusetts, the river's largest city

The Windsor Locks Canal Company at Enfield Falls, the Connecticut River's first major barrier to navigation

The Oxbow, Connecticut River, circa 1910

Downtown Hartford, Connecticut, during the 1936 flood

The Connecticut Lakes, the source of the Connecticut River, near the border of New Hampshire and Quebec

Great Falls (Bellows Falls) at high flow under the Vilas Bridge, taken from the end of Bridge St on the Vermont side, looking upriver

Satellite image of the Connecticut River depositing silt into Long Island Sound

Drift boat fishing guide working the river near Colebrook, New Hampshire

Harbor seal in the Connecticut River, below the Holyoke Dam, following the shad run

Riverbank restoration project in Fairlee, Vermont

Looking north from the French King Bridge at the Erving-Gill town line in western Massachusetts

Mist upstream of the Bissell Bridge between Windsor and South Windsor, CT

Founders Bridge in Hartford, with a view of the Bulkeley Bridge upstream

The Connecticut River is the longest river in the New England region of the United States, flowing roughly southward for 406 mi through four states.

The region stretching from Springfield north to the New Hampshire and Vermont state borders fostered many agricultural Pocomtuc and Nipmuc settlements, with its soil enhanced by sedimentary deposits.

Several major transportation corridors cross the river including Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, Interstate 95 (Connecticut Turnpike), Interstate 90 (Massachusetts Turnpike), Interstate 89, Interstate 93, and Interstate 84.

New Hampshire

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The historical coat of arms of New Hampshire, from 1876

Site of first house in New Hampshire, present mansion constructed in 1750, by Gov. W. B. Wentworth, New York Public Library

1922 map of New Hampshire published in the bulletin of the Brown Company in Berlin

Köppen climate types of New Hampshire, using 1991-2020 climate normals.

Map of New Hampshire, with roads, rivers, and major cities

Mount Adams (5774 ft) is part of New Hampshire's Presidential Range.

Lake Winnipesaukee and the Ossipee Mountains

Autumn leaves on many hardwood trees in New Hampshire turn colors, attracting many tourists

Largest reported ancestry groups in New Hampshire by town as of 2013. Dark purple indicates Irish, light purple English, pink French, turquoise French Canadian, dark blue Italian, and light blue German. Gray indicates townships with no reported data.

The New Hampshire State House in Concord

Saint Anselm College has held several national debates on campus.

Dartmouth College before a debate in 2008

Manchester–Boston Regional Airport from the air

Thompson Hall, at UNH, was built in 1892.

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the United States.

It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north.

I-93.svg Interstate 93 is the main Interstate highway in New Hampshire and runs north from Salem (on the Massachusetts border) to Littleton (on the Vermont border). I-93 connects the more densely populated southern part of the state to the Lakes Region and the White Mountains further to the north.

Massachusetts

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The Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall (1882). The Pilgrims founded Plymouth in 1620.

An illustration of the Battles of Lexington and Concord

John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (1797–1801)

Textile mills such as the one in Lowell made Massachusetts a leader in the Industrial Revolution.

John F. Kennedy, Massachusetts native and 35th President of the United States (1961–1963)

A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in South Deerfield

Massachusetts population density map. The centers of high-density settlement, from east to west, are Boston, Worcester, Springfield, and Pittsfield, respectively.

Saint Patrick's Day parade in Scituate, the municipality with the highest percentage identifying Irish ancestry in the United States, at 47.5% in 2010. Irish Americans constitute the largest ethnicity in Massachusetts.

Boston's Chinatown, with its paifang gate, is home to many Chinese and also Vietnamese restaurants.

Boston gay pride march, held annually in June. In 2004 Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.

Built in 1681, the Old Ship Church in Hingham is the oldest church in America in continuous ecclesiastical use. Massachusetts has since become one of the most irreligious states in the U.S.

Towns in Massachusetts by combined mean SAT of their public high school district for the 2015–2016 academic year

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, serving Greater Boston

Logan International Airport in Boston is the largest airport in New England in terms of passenger volume

Prominent roads and cities in Massachusetts

The Massachusetts State House, topped by its golden dome, faces Boston Common on Beacon Hill.

Charlie Baker (R), the 72nd Governor of Massachusetts

Boston Pride Parade, 2012. From left: Representative Joe Kennedy III, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and former representative Barney Frank.

The site of Henry David Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond in Concord

Massachusetts has the largest population of the New England states. New Englander culture and identity remains strong in Massachusetts (Flag of New England pictured above).

An outdoor dance performance at Jacob's Pillow in Becket

USS Constitution fires a salute during its annual Fourth of July turnaround cruise

Map showing the average medicare reimbursement per enrollee for the counties in Massachusetts.

Gillette Stadium in Foxborough is the home venue for the New England Patriots (NFL) and the New England Revolution (MLS)

A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts.

Massachusetts (Massachusett: Muhsachuweesee [ məhsatʃəwiːsi:], English:, ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the United States.

It borders on the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Maine to the east, Connecticut and Rhode Island to the south, New Hampshire and Vermont to the north and New York to the west.

Other major interstates include I-91, which travels generally north and south along the Connecticut River; I-93, which travels north and south through central Boston, then passes through Methuen before entering New Hampshire; and I-95, which connects Providence, Rhode Island with Greater Boston, forming a partial loop concurrent with Route128 around the more urbanized areas before continuing north along the coast into New Hampshire.

New Hampshire Exit 15 (Montcalm), looking south

Interstate 89

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Interstate 89 northbound in Vermont, approaching Exit 2 in Sharon

I-89 Exit 17 in Colchester (June 5, 2015), Chittenden County

The Whale Tails along I-89 northbound in South Burlington, just west of Exit 12

Interstate 89 (I-89) is an Interstate Highway in the New England region of the United States traveling from Bow, New Hampshire, to the Canadian border between Highgate Springs, Vermont, and Saint-Armand, Quebec.

The eventual completion of Autoroute 35 from Montreal will lead to a non-stop limited access highway route between the two cities, following I-93 south from I-89's terminus.

The largest cities directly served by I-89 are Concord, the state capital of New Hampshire, Montpelier, the state capital of Vermont, and Burlington, Vermont.

Interstate 91

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Interstate 91 in 1969, just after completion of the viaduct which would separate Springfield from the Connecticut River, St. Joseph's Church and the Campanile can be seen in the foreground, as well as an incomplete Tower Square

I-91 looking north in Downtown Hartford at the I-84 interchange. The Bulkeley Bridge is visible to the right.

alt=A series of highway ramps with multiple cars on them. A body of water is next to them and they are surrounded by buildings.|The beginning of I-91 in New Haven, CT.

I-91 north at exit 32 (I-84 west) in Hartford, CT.

alt=Both sides of a highway with a grass plot in the middle of the roads. Street lamps surround the middle and several cars are on the roads. The roads have an HOV diamond on them.|I-91 has an HOV Lane between Hartford and Windsor, CT.

alt=A four lane highway in snowy weather curving left with several cars on it. An exit sign and mountains are in the distance.|I-91 looking northbound in Brattleboro, VT.

alt=A snowy highway road that is icy and looking towards forests and mountains.|Northbound I-91 just north of exit 6 in Rockingham, VT.

alt=A four lane highway in the woods looking towards mountains on a sunny day.|Southbound I-91 in Wheelock, VT.

Interstate 91 (I-91) is an Interstate Highway in the New England region of the United States.

I-91 is the longest of three Interstate highways whose entire route is located within the New England states (the other two highways being I-89 and I-93) and is also the only primary (two-digit) Interstate Highway in New England to intersect all five of the other highways that run through the region.

I-91 travels along the eastern border of Vermont and serves as a major transportation corridor for eastern Vermont and western New Hampshire.