On a frosty New Year’s Day in 1711, the York County coroner was summoned to examine a frozen body discovered in a...
The Londonderry Scots-Irish saved New Hampshire from a Massachusetts takeover by multiplying along the border and fighting the town across from it....
During World War II, Rhode Island residents could hear the roar of PT boat engines from Narragansett Bay all day and see...
Israel Potter, a Revolutionary War POW, spent 50 years in exile in England, where he met King George III, Benjamin Franklin and...
Thousands of one-room schoolhouses once educated New England children, some well into the 20th century. Small, utilitarian buildings, they usually lacked plumbing...
The wealthiest towns in each New England state all have good schools, beautiful homes and well-preserved historic districts. They are also, unsurprisingly,...