A report on New Hampshire and Vermont

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
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
Fort William and Mary in 1705
The gold leaf dome of the neoclassical Vermont State House (Capitol) in Montpelier
1922 map of New Hampshire published in the bulletin of the Brown Company in Berlin
1791 Act of Congress admitting Vermont into the Union
Köppen climate types of New Hampshire, using 1991-2020 climate normals.
Vermont in 1827. The county boundaries have since changed.
Map of New Hampshire, with roads, rivers, and major cities
Map of Vermont showing cities, roads, and rivers
Shaded relief map of New Hampshire
Population density of Vermont
Mount Adams (5774 ft) is part of New Hampshire's Presidential Range.
Mount Mansfield
Lake Winnipesaukee and the Ossipee Mountains
Western face of Camel's Hump Mountain (elevation 4079 ft).
Autumn leaves on many hardwood trees in New Hampshire turn colors, attracting many tourists
Fall foliage at Lake Willoughby
Downtown Manchester
Köppen climate types of Vermont, using 1991–2020 climate normals.
Main Street, Nashua
Silurian and Devonian stratigraphy of Vermont
The hermit thrush, the state bird of Vermont
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
Farmers' market of Mack's Apples
Fall foliage seen from Hogback Mountain, Wilmington
The New Hampshire State House in Concord
Lake Champlain
Saint Anselm College has held several national debates on campus.
Autumn in Vermont
Dartmouth College before a debate in 2008
Stowe Resort Village
Manchester–Boston Regional Airport from the air
The Lyndon Institute, a high school in Lyndon, Vermont
Dartmouth College's Baker Library
The University of Vermont
Old Mill, the oldest building of the university
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
Amtrak station in White River Junction
The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, in Vernon
The Vermont Supreme Court's building in Montpelier
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.
Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and Representative Peter Welch greet supporters in 2017.
Vermontasaurus sculpture in Post Mills, in 2010

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

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Battle of Norridgewock (1724): Death of Father Sebastian Rale

Dummer's War

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Also known as Father Rale's War, Lovewell's War, Greylock's War, the Three Years War, the Wabanaki-New England War, or the 4th Anglo-Abenaki War.

Also known as Father Rale's War, Lovewell's War, Greylock's War, the Three Years War, the Wabanaki-New England War, or the 4th Anglo-Abenaki War.

Battle of Norridgewock (1724): Death of Father Sebastian Rale
A New Map of the North Parts of America claimed by France under the names of Louisiana... in 1720 drawn by Herman Moll
Raid on Norridgewock (1722): Westbrook confiscates Father Rale's Strongbox
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts William Dummer
The Father Rale memorial at the battle site in Madison, Maine
Death of Chief Paugus
Monument of Chief Grey Lock in Battery Park (Burlington, Vermont)

The eastern theater of the war was located primarily along the border between New England and Acadia in Maine, as well as in Nova Scotia; the western theater was located in northern Massachusetts and Vermont at the border between Canada (New France) and New England.

On the first expedition in December 1724, he and his militia company of 30 men (often called "snowshoe men") left Dunstable, New Hampshire, trekking to the north of Lake Winnipesaukee ("Winnipiscogee Lake") into the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Northeastern United States

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Geographical region of the United States.

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
Downtown Providence, Rhode Island

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.

Province of New Hampshire

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Colony of England and later a British province in North America.

Colony of England and later a British province in North America.

Map of the province
Map of the province
Topographical map of the province
Map of the province

In 1776 the province established an independent state and government, the State of New Hampshire, and joined with twelve other colonies to form the United States.

These disputes resulted in the eventual formation of the Vermont Republic and the US state of Vermont.

New England–Acadian forests

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The New England-Acadian forests are a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ecoregion in North America that includes a variety of habitats on the hills, mountains and plateaus of New England and New York State in the Northeastern United States, and Quebec and the Maritime Provinces of Eastern Canada.

The New England-Acadian forests are a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ecoregion in North America that includes a variety of habitats on the hills, mountains and plateaus of New England and New York State in the Northeastern United States, and Quebec and the Maritime Provinces of Eastern Canada.

In Canada, the New England-Acadian forests ecoregion includes the Eastern Townships and Beauce regions of southern Quebec, half of New Brunswick and most of Nova Scotia, and in the United States, the North Country of New York State, northwestern Connecticut, northwestern Massachusetts, Lake Champlain and the Champlain Valley of Vermont, and the uplands and coastal plain of New Hampshire, and almost all of Maine.

Bloomfield, Vermont

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Bloomfield is a town in Essex County, Vermont, United States.

It is part of the Berlin, NH–VT Micropolitan Statistical Area.

US 4's western terminus at US 9 and US 20 in East Greenbush, New York, a suburb of Albany.

U.S. Route 4

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US 4's western terminus at US 9 and US 20 in East Greenbush, New York, a suburb of Albany.
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U.S. Route 4 (US 4) is a 253 mi long United States highway that runs from East Greenbush, New York, in the west to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in the east, traversing Vermont.

In Vermont and New Hampshire, the route is signed East-West, the conventional direction for even-numbered US highways.

Notable Irish Americans

Irish Americans

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

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

Notable Irish Americans
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 Lass depiction in 1885.
Irish immigrants in Kansas City, Missouri, c. 1909
1862 song (Female versian)
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
St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York
Logo of the Boston Celtics basketball team
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.

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.

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

The town hall of Manchester, Connecticut
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
Monhegan is a plantation in Maine.
Towns (light gray) and cities (dark gray) of Connecticut
2010 Maine population density map
Massachusetts cities and towns. All territory of the state is within the bounds of a municipal corporation.
Map of New Hampshire municipalities
Cities and towns of Rhode Island

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

A section of US 2 near Waterville, Washington

U.S. Route 2

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East–west U.S. Highway spanning 2571 mi across the northern continental United States.

East–west U.S. Highway spanning 2571 mi across the northern continental United States.

A section of US 2 near Waterville, Washington
U.S. Route 2 in Essex, Montana
US 2 western segment eastern terminus
The west terminus of the east section in eastern New York.
A section of highway traveling through New Hampshire
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Route 2 in Gilead, Maine

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Frost in 1941

Robert Frost

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American poet.

American poet.

Frost in 1941
Frost circa 1910
Robert Frost's 85th birthday in 1959
The Robert Frost Farm in Derry, New Hampshire, where he wrote many of his poems, including "Tree at My Window" and "Mending Wall".
"I had a lover's quarrel with the world." The epitaph engraved on his tomb is an excerpt from his poem "The Lesson for Today".
The Frost family grave in Bennington Old Cemetery
U.S stamp, 1974
Robert Frost Hall at Southern New Hampshire University
"The Road Not Taken", as featured in Mountain Interval (1916)

On July 22, 1961, Frost was named poet laureate of Vermont.

His father descended from Nicholas Frost of Tiverton, Devon, England, who had sailed to New Hampshire in 1634 on the Wolfrana, and his mother was a Scottish immigrant.