The state universities of Maine, New Hampshire, And Vermont are older and more `` respectable '' ; ;

New England is a Northeastern region of the United States, including the six states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

That is larger by than the combined areas of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.

In Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, New Jersey, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, car dealerships continue to operate under blue-law prohibitions in which an automobile may not be purchased or traded on a Sunday.

Maine was the last New England State to take off the books laws that prohibited department stores from opening on Sundays.

A similar event occurs at the Friendship Festival, a joint celebration between Fort Erie, Ontario, and neighbouring Buffalo, New York, and towns and villages throughout Maine, New Brunswick, and Quebec come together to celebrate both anniversaries together.

In 1779, New Pennacook Plantation was granted to Timothy Walker, Jr. and his associates at what would be incorporated in 1800 as Rumford, Maine, the site of Pennacook Falls.

The Late Period extended from three thousand years ago until first contact with European settlers and was dominated by the organization of First Nations peoples into the Algonquian-influenced Abenaki Nation which existed largely in present-day interior Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, and the Mi ' kmaq Nation which inhabited all of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, eastern New Brunswick and the southern Gaspé.

The primarily agrarian Maliseet Nation settled throughout the St. John River and Allagash River valleys of present-day New Brunswick and Maine.

After the New England Conquest of Acadia in 1710, mainland Nova Scotia was under the control of New England, but both present-day New Brunswick and virtually all of present-day Maine remained contested territory between New England and New France.

The American border with New Brunswick did not have any significant action during this conflict, although British forces did occupy a portion of coastal Maine at one point.

The tour dates will include performances in Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, Washington, D. C., Portland, Maine and Hawaii.

In 2011, it was estimated that nearly 171, 000 students would participate in 18 existing school choice programs in 10 states ( Vermont, Maine, New Mexico and 7 others ) and the District of Columbia.

Mainly or partially francophone or francosphere countries include France, Belgium ( Wallonia is almost entirely francophone, and there is a large French-speaking community in the Brussels-Capital Region and a few bordering municipalities ), Canada ( the province of Quebec is francophone, and there are large French-speaking communities in Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and other Canadian provinces ), United States ( South / Central Louisiana and parts of Maine ), Switzerland, Haiti, the French West Indies and several countries in Africa, including Congo, Burundi, Madagascar and Rwanda, that are former French or Belgian colonies.

Holocene marine fossils are known from Vermont, Quebec, Ontario, Maine, New Hampshire, and Michigan.

* 1881 – The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.

Maine (; ) is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast.

Maine is the only state to border exactly one other state ( New Hampshire to the west ).

Along the famous rock-bound coast of Maine are lighthouses, beaches, fishing villages, and thousands of offshore islands, including the Isles of Shoals, which straddle the New Hampshire border.

Large mines existed in Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Maine.

New England is a region of the north-eastern United States, comprising the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

* First Division: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts.

The Northeast Division consists of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Northern Virginia.

In the United States it covers eastern Pennsylvania, eastern New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.

; Dominion of New England: Created in 1685 by a decree from King James II that consolidated Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Province of New York, East Jersey, and West Jersey into a single larger colony.

* August 31 – A total solar eclipse is visible from northern Canada through northeastern Vermont, New Hampshire, southwestern Maine, and the Capes of Massachusetts.

* Eastern: based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Eastern Region ( R9 ) covers twenty states ( Maine, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Delaware, and New Jersey ), seventeen National Forests, one Grassland and America ’ s Outdoors Center for Conservation, Recreation, and Resources.

In 1790, Shaker enclaves were organized at Hancock, Massachusetts, and Enfield, Connecticut ; in 1792, Canterbury, New Hampshire and Tyringham, Massachusetts followed suit ; 1793, Alfred, Maine, Enfield, New Hampshire, Harvard and Shirley, Massachusetts ; 1794, New Gloucester ( Sabbathday Lake ), Maine.

New Shaker communities formed in the 1780s and 1790s included Hancock and West Pittsfield, Massachusetts ; Harvard, Massachusetts ; East Canterbury, New Hampshire ( or Shaker Village ); Shirley, Massachusetts ; Enfield, Connecticut ( then also known as Shaker Station ); Enfield, New Hampshire ; (" Chosen Vale "), at Tyringham, Massachusetts ; New Gloucester, Maine ( since 1890: " Sabbathday Lake "); and Alfred, Maine, where, more than anywhere else among the Shakers, spiritualistic healing of the sick was practiced.

Fyodor Martens and other diplomats from both nations stayed in New Castle, New Hampshire at the Hotel Wentworth ( where the armistice was signed ), and were ferried across the Piscataqua River for negotiations held on the base located in Kittery, Maine.

Only the states of Delaware, West Virginia, Vermont, Maine, North Dakota, and Wyoming do not have a single city with a population over 100, 000 as of the 2007 census estimates.

The oldest continuing school voucher programs existing today in the United States are the Town Tuitioning programs in Vermont and Maine, beginning in 1869 and 1873 respectively.

Vermont is the biggest US producer, with over during the 2011 season, followed by New York with and Maine with.

It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north.

The White Mountain National Forest links the Vermont and Maine portions of the Appalachian Trail, and boasts the Mount Washington Auto Road, where visitors may drive to the top of Mount Washington.

It is bounded by Quebec, Canada, to the north and northwest ; Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east ; Massachusetts to the south ; and Vermont to the west.

As with Maine and Vermont, French-Canadian dishes are popular, including tourtière, which is traditionally served on Christmas Eve, and poutine.

It settled the border dispute between Canada and the Eastern States, such as Maine and Vermont.

Willkie carried ten states: Maine, Vermont, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado.

No other state has ever formed by breaking off from another without the consent of the legislature of the parent state, as in the cases of Vermont, Kentucky, and Maine.

This provision of McCain-Feingold, sponsored by Maine Republican Olympia Snowe and Vermont Independent James Jeffords, as introduced applied only to for-profit corporations, but was extended to incorporate non-profit issue organizations, such as the Environmental Defense Fund or the National Rifle Association, as part of the " Wellstone Amendment ," sponsored by Senator Paul Wellstone.

Roosevelt carried every state except Maine and Vermont.

* Region 1: responsible within the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.