The town is the basic unit of local government and local division of state authority in the six New England states. Most other U.S. states lack a direct...
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New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont...
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This is a list of towns in England. Historically, towns were any settlement with a charter, including market towns and ancient boroughs. The process of...
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A New England city and town area (NECTA) was a geographic and statistical entity defined by the U.S. federal government for use in the six-state New England...
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theory. The town meeting form is used in portions of the United States, principally in New England, where it has been the primary form of town government...
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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...
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The New England Colonies of British America included Connecticut Colony, the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Massachusetts Bay Colony...
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The new towns in the United Kingdom were planned under the powers of the New Towns Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 68) and later acts to relocate people from...
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Look up New England in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. New England is a region of the Northeastern United States, comprising the states of Connecticut...
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The culture of New England comprises a shared heritage and culture primarily shaped by its indigenous peoples, early English colonists, and waves of immigration...
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Hampshire is organized along the New England town model, where the state is nearly completely incorporated and divided into towns, 13 of which are designated...
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combination of natural rugged landscape and rural, small town villages have made several areas in New England iconic locations for fall color photography. The...
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New England (Latin: Nova Anglia) was a colony allegedly founded, either in the 1070s or the 1090s, by Anglo-Saxon refugees fleeing the Norman invasion...
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Pawling is a town in Dutchess County, New York, United States. Its population was 8,012 at the 2020 census. The town is named after Catherine Pauling...
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New England is a geographical region in the north of the state of New South Wales, Australia, about 60 km (37 mi) inland from the Tasman Sea. The area...
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The New England road marking system was a regional system of marked numbered routes in the six-state region of New England in the United States. The routes...
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The Dominion of New England in America (1686–1689) was an administrative union of English colonies covering all of New England and the Mid-Atlantic Colonies...
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The New England Revolution, informally known as Foxborough Revolution in other countries, is an American professional soccer club based in the Greater...
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New England College (NEC) is a private liberal arts college in Henniker, New Hampshire. As of Fall 2020 New England College's enrollment was 4,327 students...
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enclosed, and through which a track must run.[citation needed] In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build...
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is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, in the United States. A small coastal resort town with...
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present day. Town hall meetings are meant to resemble the New England town meeting that originated in the 17th century. However, participants in town hall meetings...
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Nantucket (redirect from Nantucket (town), Nantucket County, Massachusetts)
and environmental example of a late 18th- and early 19th-century New England seaport town." Nantucket probably takes its name from a Wampanoag word, transliterated...
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of towns in England, England's towns in alphabet order and the differing ways which towns have become towns. List of towns and cities in England by historical...
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New England French (French: français de Nouvelle-Angleterre) is a variety of French spoken in the New England region of the United States. It descends...
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Newport (redirect from Newport (England))
Newport, New Hampshire, a New England town Newport (CDP), New Hampshire, the main village in the town Newport, New Jersey (disambiguation) Newport, New York...
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New England has no official flag. However, there have been many historical or modern banners used to represent the region in its history. While there...
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Palace Council. A murder mystery, the novel is set in a fictional town in New England, and tells the story of the murder of a black economist, and the...
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legislature for a town or city Board of selectmen: Executive council of a town Frank M. Bryan, Real Democracy: The New England Town Meeting and How It...
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Brattleboro, Vermont (redirect from New England Historic Photographs Archive)
continuing southward, closely paralleling the New England Central Railroad for much of its length within town. Its local names are Vernon Street and Vernon...
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