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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a total of 192 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) within its borders. This is the second highest statewide total in the United States after New York, which has more than 250. Of the Massachusetts NHLs, 57 are in the state capital of Boston, and are listed separately. Ten of the remaining 134 designations ...
In the state of Massachusetts, there are over 4,300 listings, representing about 5% of all NRHP listings nationwide and the second-most of any U.S. state, behind only New York. Listings appear in all 14 Massachusetts counties.
This is a list of the cities and towns in New England with population over 25,000 as of the 2020 census. Massachusetts contains the most cities and towns on the list with 80, while Vermont contains the fewest with just one. Neither Vermont's nor Maine's state capitals fall within the top 150 by population.
Known as Hyde Park, the building is one of the oldest Hudson River estates and was located near the New York Central Railroad, providing Vanderbilt easy access to New York City on his own line. The 54-room mansion is the work of the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White. [103] Washita Battlefield: Oklahoma: 315.20 acres (1.2756 km 2)
A Map of New England. A Map of New England, officially entitled A map of New-England, being the first that ever was here cut, and done by the best pattern that could be had, which being in some places defective, it made the other less exact: Yet doth it sufficiently show the situation of the country & conveniently well the distances of places, is an early regional map of New England, published ...
The oldest cities in New England date to the last few decades of the 18th century, (e.g. New Haven, Connecticut, was chartered as a city in 1784). In New England, cities were not widespread until well into the 19th century. New Hampshire did not have any cities until the 1840s, and for many years prior to the 1860s Vermont had just one city.
A 17th-century map shows New England as a coastal enclave extending from Cape Cod to New France. On April 10, 1606, King James I of England issued a charter for the Virginia Company of Plymouth, (often referred to as the Plymouth Company).
A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Relationships alternated between peace and armed skirmishes between colonists and local Native American tribes, the bloodiest of which was the Pequot War in 1637 which resulted in the Mystic massacre. [22]