The oldest bank in a state isn’t necessarily the first one chartered. Banks have had their difficulties over the years and many...
The Spirit of 76 reappeared again and again after the American Revolution as an idea, as a symbol and as a propaganda...
There was a real Miss Rumphius who lived in Christmas Cove and secretly planted lupine seeds to adorn Maine’s roadsides and meadows....
In 1835 Connecticut’s Eliphalet Terry assumed leadership of a small Hartford insurance firm. Within one year, and with one master stroke, he...
New England is dotted with historic post offices, from simple clapboard buildings to grand Beaux Arts palaces. In the earliest days of...
Identifying New England’s oldest libraries is no easy task. In the early days of European settlement, book collections took many different forms....