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About New England

Six U.S. states, namely, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont collectively comprise the region commonly known as New England. Along with Montreal (Quebec, Canada), Boston (Massachusetts, U.S.A.) is one of North America's oldest cities. The New England area is home to a tremendous variety of flora and fauna.

As America's first old civilization New England has a rich endowment of many of the nation's most cherished memories: Paul Revere's midnight ride, the Battle of Bunker Hill, the charisma of the Kennedys. It was here that the first cries of American Independence were heard, here that the movement to abolish slavery found fertile ground, here that education achieved its fullest flowering, here that American art and literature attained their greatest refinement. Numerous excellent restaurants testify to New England's highly multicultural milieu.

This is America's attic, crammed with marvelous antiques of every description. Here are the homes of Hawthorne, Emerson, Dickinson, and Melville; souvenirs of clippers and whaling ships from centuries past; houses and churches in whose gables and steeples can be read a national architectural history. The countryside abounds with inspiring vistas, enchanted with the bright golds and reds of fall, slumbering beneath winter's heavy snows, bursting with the worshipful energy of spring's ritual rebirth, and joyful in summer's ceaseless flowering.

Men's Journal recently rated Boston, MA at #3 on its list of "The Best Big Cities" as part of its list of The 50 Best Places to Live (June 2004 issue).

In December 2000, Nashua, NH became the only two-time winner (1997 and 2000) of the #1 spot on Money magazine's annual survey of the best places to live in America.

Boston, MA
- Places
  - Boston National Historic Park, downtown, including Old South Meeting House, Old State House, Faneuil Hall, the Paul Revere House, and Old North Church bring to life the American ideals of freedom of speech, religion, government, and self-determination. In nearby Charlestown, visit the Bunker Hill Monument, the site of the first major battle of the American Revolution, the Charlestown Navy Yard, one of the nation's first naval shipyards and the U.S.S. Constitution, the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world. Seven of the eight privately, municipally and federally owned and managed historic sites that comprise Boston National Historical Park are connected by the Freedom Trail, a 2.5-mile (4 k.m.) walking tour of 16 sites and structures of historic importance in downtown Boston and Charlestown.
  - Children's Museum, Children's Wharf, 300 Congress Street; nearby attractions include the Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum (Congress Street Bridge)
  - Museum of Science, Science Park; located on the Charles River Dam Bridge, on the dividing line between Cambridge and Boston; features Duck Tours and a spectacular view of the Charles River; park at the CambridgeSide Galleria Mall; subway station: Science Center (Green Line)
  - Museum of Fine Arts, Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue
  - New England Aquarium, Central Wharf (in Boston's Waterfront area, adjacent to Long Wharf); subway stations: Aquarium (Blue Line), Haymarket (Orange Line, Green Line); features sharks, whale watching and harbor tours, and Simons IMAX Theatre; in Boston's Financial District; take I-93 South, Government Center exit 24, park at 200 State Street; nearby attractions include Haymarket (an open produce market that also sells goat meat), Faneuil Hall, and the Quincy Market (which is part of the Faneuil Hall Marketplace; landmark: Customs House Clock Tower).

Cambridge, MA
- Places
  - Harvard Square, Cambridge

Carver, MA
- Places
  - Edaville, Carver

Lincoln, MA
- Places
  - DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 51 Sandy Pond Road

Medford, MA
- Places
  - Guru Nanak Darbar, 226 Mystic Avenue.

Milford, MA
- Places
  - New England Sikh Studies Circle, 204 East Main Street.

Nashua, NH
- Places
  - Pheasant Lane Mall, 310 Daniel Webster Highway
  - Fun World, 200 Daniel Webster Highway, game arcade, rides and four mini bowling lanes
- Restaurants
  - La Hacienda Del Rio, 4 Taggart Drive, Mexican restaurant.

Tyngsboro, MA
- Places
  - Max's Country Golf, 383 Middlesex Road, close to Nashua's Pheasant Lane Mall, featuring an 18-hole mini-golf course, 50-tee station golf driving range, baseball and softball batting cages, birthday parties, the largest man-made waterfall in the Northeast, Richardson's best-in-the-Northeast homemade ice-cream.

Westford, MA
- Places
  - Kimball Farm, 400 Littleton Road (Route 110), operating since 1908 as an ice-cream parlor, 9-hole golf course, golf driving range, mini golf course, beach volleyball, country store, waterfalls, bumper boats, hens, cocks, goats, and llamas.

York Beach, ME
- Places
  - York's Wild Kingdom, Route 1, York Beach, Maine, featuring rides, paddle boats, an 18-hole miniature golf course, a petting zoo, and amusement park.

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- Places
  - Santa's Village

Links
- New Hampshire Attractions
- New Hampshire Attractions

Gurdwara (Sikh place of worship) - Milford, Massachusetts - Dec. 1, 2002

Downtown skyline - Boston, Massachusetts - Oct. 14, 2002

Beaver II, a full-size replica of one of the three original ships (Boston Tea Party, 1773) - Boston, Massachusetts - Oct. 14, 2002

Massachusetts State House sits atop Beacon Hill - Charles Bulfinch, 1798 - Boston, Massachusetts - Nov. 20, 2002