A report on New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts

The historical coat of arms of New Hampshire, from 1876

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

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

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

A circa 1775 flag used by the Green Mountain Boys

An illustration of the Battles of Lexington and Concord

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

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

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

1791 Act of Congress admitting Vermont into the Union

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

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

Vermont in 1827. The county boundaries have since changed.

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

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

Map of Vermont showing cities, roads, and rivers

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

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

Lake Winnipesaukee and the Ossipee Mountains

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Silurian and Devonian stratigraphy of Vermont

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

The hermit thrush, the state bird of Vermont

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.

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.

A proportional representation of Vermont exports, 2020

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

Fall foliage seen from Hogback Mountain, Wilmington

The New Hampshire State House in Concord

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, serving Greater Boston

Saint Anselm College has held several national debates on campus.

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

Dartmouth College before a debate in 2008

Prominent roads and cities in Massachusetts

Manchester–Boston Regional Airport from the air

The Lyndon Institute, a high school in Lyndon, Vermont

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

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

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

Thompson Hall, at UNH, was built in 1892.

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

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

The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, in Vernon

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).

The Vermont Supreme Court's building in Montpelier

An outdoor dance performance at Jacob's Pillow in Becket

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.

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

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

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

Vermontasaurus sculpture in Post Mills, in 2010

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.

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.

- New Hampshire

It borders the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north.

- Vermont

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.

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New England

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

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

A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre

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

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.

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

The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire

A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont

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

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

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

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

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

Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, bordered by New Hampshire to the west; the Gulf of Maine to the southeast; and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and northwest, respectively.

Maine was part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts until 1820 when it voted to secede from Massachusetts to become a separate state.

Maine's Moosehead Lake is the largest lake wholly in New England, since Lake Champlain is located between Vermont, New York and Québec.

Connecticut River

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Longest river in the New England region of the United States, flowing roughly southward for 406 mi through four states.

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 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.

The Pennacook tribe mediated many early disagreements between colonists and other Indian tribes, with a territory stretching roughly from the Massachusetts border with Vermont and New Hampshire, northward to the rise of the White Mountains in New Hampshire.

English Americans

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English Americans, or Anglo-Americans, are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England.

England United States. Shows the first permanent English settlement of Jamestown in 1607.

Statue of John Smith for the first English settlement in Historic Jamestowne, Virginia.

The first self-governing document of Plymouth Colony. English Pilgrims signing the Mayflower Compact in 1620.

John Trumbull's famous painting, Declaration of Independence.

English language distribution in the United States.

American cultural icons, apple pie, baseball, and the American flag.

The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth Colony by English Pilgrims in October 1621.

Henry Chadwick’s early contributions to the development of the game is often called the "Father of Baseball".

The same 1909 data for each state (of the total European population only) of English ancestry were Connecticut 96.2%, Rhode Island 96.0%, Vermont 95.4%, Massachusetts 95.0%, New Hampshire 94.1%, Maine 93.1%, Virginia 85.0%, Maryland 84.0%, North Carolina 83.1%, South Carolina 82.4%, New York 78.2% and Pennsylvania 59.0%.

Northeastern United States

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Geographical region of the United States.

New York, the most populous city in the Northeast and all of the United States

Philadelphia, the second most populous city in the Northeast and the sixth most populated city in the United States

Boston, the most populated city in Massachusetts and New England and the third most populated city in the Northeast

Embarkation of the Pilgrims, Robert Walter Weir (1857)

Penn's Treaty with the Indians, Benjamin West (1772)

The High Point Monument as seen from Lake Marcia at High Point, Sussex County, the highest elevation in New Jersey at 1803 ft above sea level

Cape Cod Bay, a leading tourist destination in Massachusetts

The Palisades along the Hudson River, New Jersey

U.S. Route 220 as it passes through Lamar Township, Pennsylvania

Using the United States Census Bureau's definition of the Northeast, the region includes nine states: they are Maine, New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania.

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

Interstate 93

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

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

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

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

Route of the new Central Artery after the Big Dig

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

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

Irish Americans

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Irish Americans or Hiberno-Americans (Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are Americans who have full or partial ancestry from Ireland.

Charles Carroll, the sole Catholic signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, was the descendant of Irish nobility in County Tipperary. Signers Matthew Thornton, George Taylor were born in Ireland and were "Ulster" Scots, while Thomas Lynch Jr., for example, was Protestant; he was of Irish ancestry and retained a strong Irish identity.

"Leacht Cuimhneacháin na nGael", Irish famine memorial located on Penn's Landing, Philadelphia

Thomas Ambrose Butler, an Irish Catholic priest, was a leading voice in urging Irish immigrants to colonize Kansas

Gravestone in Boston Catholic cemetery erected in memory of County Roscommon native born shortly before the Great Famine

Population density of people born in Ireland, 1870; these were mostly Catholics; the older Scots Irish immigration is not shown.

U.S. President Grover Cleveland twisting the tail of the British Lion as Americans cheer in the Venezuelan crisis of 1895; cartoon in Puck by J.S. Pughe

American political cartoon by Thomas Nast titled "The Usual Irish Way of Doing Things", depicting a drunken Irishman lighting a powder keg and swinging a bottle. Published 2 September 1871 in Harper's Weekly

The Orange riot of 1871 as depicted in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. The view is at 25th Street in Manhattan looking south down Eighth Avenue.

St. Augustine's Church on fire. Anti-Irish, anti-Catholic Nativist riots in Philadelphia in 1844.

The mass hanging of Irish Catholic soldiers who joined the Mexican army

Officers and men of the Irish-Catholic 69th New York Volunteer Regiment attend church services at Fort Corcoran in 1861.

Irish immigrants in Kansas City, Missouri, c. 1909

1862 song that used the "No Irish Need Apply" slogan. It was copied from a similar London song.

New York Times want ad 1854—the only New York Times ad with NINA for men.

1882 illustration from Puck depicting Irish immigrants as troublemakers, as compared to those of other nationalities

The Philadelphia Phillies started the tradition of wearing green uniforms on St. Patrick's day.

Two Irish stars: "Gentleman Jim" Corbett licks John L. Sullivan in 1892

Actor Tom Cruise descends from paternal Irish ("Cruise" and "O'Mara") lineage around County Dublin.

Irish Republican mural in South Boston, Massachusetts

The Chicago River, dyed green for the 2005 St. Patrick's Day celebration

1928 Democratic Presidential Nominee Al Smith was the first Irish Catholic nominee of a major political party.

Distribution of Irish Americans according to the 2000 Census

President John F. Kennedy in motorcade in Cork on June 27, 1963

President Ronald Reagan speaking to a large crowd in his ancestral home in Ballyporeen, Ireland, in 1984.

President Barack Obama greets local residents on Main Street in Moneygall, Ireland, May 23, 2011.

New York state has the most Irish speakers of the 50 states, and Massachusetts the highest percentage.

Regionally, the most Irish American states are Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut, according to the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey in 2013.

The town hall of Manchester, Connecticut

New England town

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Basic unit of local government and local division of state authority in the six New England states.

Massachusetts town line sign, indicating the name of the town, the date of its establishment, and the seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

A typical New England town green in Shrewsbury, MA

Towns (light gray) and cities (dark gray) of Connecticut

Massachusetts cities and towns. All territory of the state is within the bounds of a municipal corporation.

Both of those states retain counties only as geographic subdivisions with no governmental authority, while Massachusetts has abolished eight of fourteen county governments so far.

Early town organization in Vermont and much of New Hampshire proceeded in a somewhat different manner from that of the other New England states.