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The New England Produce Center also known as the Chelsea Produce Market is a wholesale market for produce on Market Street in Chelsea, Massachusetts, one of the largest in the world. [1][2] It is served by the Grand Junction Railroad in addition to truck links via Interstate 93 and Boston's Northeast Expressway (Route 1).
Boston. Blackstone St between Hanover and North Sts. Coordinates: 42°21′41.7″N 71°3′21.9″W / 42.361583°N 71.056083°W / 42.361583; -71.056083. Website. Haymarket. Haymarket in Boston is an open-air market on Blackstone, Hanover, and North Streets, next to the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway between the North End and ...
New England is the oldest clearly defined region of the United States, being settled more than 150 years before the American Revolution. The first colony in New England was Plymouth Colony, established in 1620 by the Puritan Pilgrims who were fleeing religious persecution in England. A large influx of Puritans populated the New England region ...
United States portal. v. t. e. A map of Boston near the end of the colonial period: the coastline was dotted with shipyards. Shipbuilding in the American colonies was the development of the shipbuilding industry in North America (modern Canada, the United States, and Bermuda), from British colonization to American independence.
In the 1890s, the South emerged as the center of U.S. textile manufacturing; not only was cotton grown locally in the South, it had fewer labor unions and heating costs were cheaper. By the mid-20th century, all of the New England textile mills, including the Lowell mills, had either closed or relocated to the south. [1]
The colonial molasses trade occurred throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the European colonies in the Americas. Molasses was a major trading product in the Americas, being produced by enslaved Africans on sugar plantations on European colonies. The good was a major import for the British North American colonies ...
October 9, 1960. Faneuil Hall (/ ˈfænjəl / or / ˈfænəl /; previously / ˈfʌnəl /) is a marketplace and meeting hall located near the waterfront and today's Government Center, in Boston, Massachusetts. Opened in 1742, [2] it was the site of several speeches by Samuel Adams, James Otis, and others encouraging independence from Great Britain.
Multi-colored flint corn. New England cuisine is an American cuisine which originated in the New England region of the United States, and traces its roots to traditional English cuisine and Native American cuisine of the Abenaki, Narragansett, Niantic, Wabanaki, Wampanoag, and other native peoples. It also includes influences from Irish, French ...