Historic New England
New England Eats
New England By Sea
Can you Name that New England Town?
New England Nicknames
100

This Boston meetinghouse became famous after a signal of “one if by land, two if by sea.”

Old North Church

100

This Connecticut-style lobster roll is served warm with this instead of mayonnaise.

Butter

100

This 565-mile hiking trail begins on the summit of Mount Katahdin in Maine and ends in Georgia. Although not a coastal trail, thousands begin their journey just miles from Maine's rocky Atlantic shoreline.

Appalachian Trail

100

Known as the "Whaling City," this Massachusetts port was once the richest city per capita in America because of the whaling industry.

New Bedford

100

This Massachusetts city is known as the “City of Firsts” for innovations including the first American dictionary.

Springfield

200

This Rhode Island city was once one of colonial America’s busiest slave-trading ports.

Newport

200

This New England dessert is made with molasses and cornmeal and is traditionally slow-baked.

Indian Pudding

200

This Massachusetts lifesaving station on Cape Cod became famous after the 1952 rescue of the tanker Pendleton, later called one of the greatest small-boat rescues in Coast Guard history.

Chatham

200

This Vermont town is home to the famous Trapp Family Lodge, founded by the family that inspired The Sound of Music.

Stowe

200

This Maine city is known as the “Queen City of the East.”

Bangor

300

This 1777 Vermont battle helped weaken British forces before the surrender at Saratoga.

Battle of Bennington

300

This Rhode Island term refers to a milkshake made with ice cream, milk, and flavored syrup.

Cabinet

300

Completed in 1716, this Boston lighthouse is the oldest continuously operating lighthouse site in the United States.

Boston Light

300

This Connecticut town is home to both the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and the historic Mystic Seaport Museum.

New London

300

This Connecticut city is called the “Insurance Capital of the World.”

Hartford

400

This 1786–1787 uprising by farmers in western Massachusetts exposed weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.

Shay's Rebellion

400

This Maine soda, known for its unusual bitter herbal flavor, is the official soft drink of Maine.

Moxie

400

This dangerous shoal about 30 miles southeast of Nantucket has been nicknamed the "Graveyard of the Atlantic" because of the hundreds of shipwrecks there.

George's Bank

400

his Rhode Island town was once known as "Little Compton's Sakonnet" and is famous for the nation's oldest Fourth of July parade.

Bristol

400

This Connecticut city is known as the “Brass City” for its historic brass manufacturing.

Waterbury

500

This Massachusetts woman was banished from the colony in 1638 for challenging Puritan religious leaders.

Anne Hutchinson

500

n 1939, this Worcester, Massachusetts company introduced the first commercially produced frozen concentrated orange juice.

Bird's Eye

500

Known as the “Titanic of New England,” this sidewheel steamship caught fire and sank in Long Island Sound in 1904, killing more than 1,000 people.

The General Slocum

500

This Maine town is the easternmost city in the United States and is known as the first place in the country to see the sunrise for much of the year.

Eastport

500

This Massachusetts city, once a major shoe manufacturing center, is nicknamed the “City of Champions.”

Brockton

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