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Amherst, Massachusetts
Amherst, Massachusetts: Pioneer Valley college town, largest in Hampshire County, home of UMass Amherst, Amherst College, and Hampshire College, Emily Dickinson's birthplace, 39,263 residents, 34,436 students.
Andover, Massachusetts
Andover, Massachusetts: Essex County town about 23 miles north of Boston, population 36,569 (2020), incorporated 1646, home of Phillips Academy (1770), governed by open town meeting with a town manager.
Augusta, Maine
Augusta, Maine: capital city on the Kennebec River, seat of Kennebec County, population 18,899 (2020). Founded at the 1628 Cushnoc trading post; home to 1754 Fort Western and the Maine State House (1832).
Bangor, Maine
Bangor, Maine, the Queen City, is a Penobscot River city of about 32,500 at the head of tide, once the world's lumber capital, incorporated as a city in 1834, rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1911, and now northern Maine's economic hub.
Bar Harbor, Maine
Bar Harbor, Maine: town on Mount Desert Island, gateway to Acadia National Park; 5,089 residents (2020), tourism- and cruise-driven economy, 1,000-passenger cruise cap contested in court.
Boston
Boston, Massachusetts: capital and largest New England city on the Shawmut Peninsula, founded 1630, population about 673,000. Known for its neighborhoods, harbor port, healthcare economy, and coastal flood vulnerability.
Braintree, Massachusetts
Braintree, Massachusetts: Norfolk County town incorporated 1640, birthplace of John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and John Hancock; population 39,143 (2020), mayor-council government, South Shore Plaza, Red Line terminus, and a 752-unit MBTA Communities Act development.
Brattleboro, Vermont
Brattleboro, Vermont: a Windham County town of about 12,000 on the Connecticut River, chartered 1753 and named for William Brattle; southeastern Vermont's economic and arts hub.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Bridgeport, Connecticut: the state's most populous city, on Long Island Sound in Fairfield County. First Connecticut borough (1800), industrial hub from 1840, 148,654 residents in 2020, governed by Mayor Joseph P. Ganim.
Bristol, Connecticut
Bristol, Connecticut, is a city in central Connecticut, located 20 miles southwest of Hartford, and is known for ESPN's headquarters and Lake Compounce, the country's oldest continuously operating amusement park.
Brockton, Massachusetts
Brockton, Massachusetts: a Plymouth County city of about 106,000 south of Boston, incorporated as North Bridgewater in 1821, renamed 1874, a historic shoemaking center, "City of Champions," and home to one of the largest Cape Verdean communities in the United States.
Brookline, Massachusetts
Brookline, Massachusetts: an independent town in Norfolk County surrounded by Boston on three sides, incorporated 1705, population 63,191 (2020). Known for rejecting Boston annexation 707-299 in 1873, Representative Town Meeting government, and high housing costs.
Burlington, Vermont
Burlington, Vermont: the state's largest city (44,743 in 2020) on Lake Champlain, home of UVM, its municipal electric utility (first US city fully renewable in 2015), Sanders-era progressive politics, and a tight housing market.
Cabot, Vermont
Cabot, Vermont: rural Washington County town chartered August 17, 1781 to Jesse Leavenworth and 65 associates, named for Sophia Cabot; population 1,443 (2020), home of Cabot Creamery Cooperative founded 1919 by 94 farmers.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts: city across the Charles from Boston, settled 1630 as Newtowne, home of Harvard (1636) and MIT. Dense, highly educated city of 122,588 (2025 est.) with major 2025 multifamily zoning reform and BEUDO building-emissions rules.
Canton, Massachusetts
Canton, Massachusetts is a Norfolk County town southwest of Boston, settled 1650, incorporated 1797, governed by open town meeting, with about 24,000-25,000 residents, MBTA commuter rail stations, and the 1835 Canton Viaduct.
Concord, Massachusetts
Concord, Massachusetts: town 18 miles northwest of Boston, incorporated 1635 as the colony's first inland settlement, site of the April 19, 1775 Revolutionary War battle at the North Bridge, and home of Emerson, Thoreau, and the Alcotts.
Concord, New Hampshire
Concord, New Hampshire: state capital and Merrimack County seat on the Merrimack River, about 70 miles from Boston. Population about 44,600 (2025 estimate); formerly Penny-Cook and Rumford; named state capital in 1807.
Danbury, Connecticut
Danbury, Connecticut: Fairfield County city on the Still River, nicknamed Hat City for its 1780s-1900s hatting industry; raided by Tryon in 1777, merged town and city in 1965, population 86,518 (2020).
Danvers, Massachusetts
Danvers, Massachusetts, formerly Salem Village, is a town of about 28,000 in Essex County, 20 miles northeast of Boston; site of the 1692 witch trials, Rebecca Nurse Homestead, Oniontown nickname, and Danvers State Hospital.
Darien, Connecticut
Darien, Connecticut: suburban Gold Coast town in lower Fairfield County on Long Island Sound, incorporated 1820 from Middlesex Parish; population 21,485 (2020), Metro-North commuter town, $191.9M FY2026-27 budget, 16.05 mill rate.
Dedham, Massachusetts
Dedham, Massachusetts: Norfolk County town settled 1635, incorporated 1636, shire town since 1793. Known for Mother Brook canal, the Fairbanks House, and the nation's first tax-supported public school (1644); population about 25,400.
Fairfield, Connecticut
Fairfield, Connecticut: coastal Fairfield County town settled 1639 by Roger Ludlow, burned by the British in 1779, now a suburb of ~62,000-66,000 with two universities, Metro-North rail, and a 2020s fill-pile contamination scandal.
Fall River, Massachusetts
Fall River is a Bristol County, Massachusetts city, nicknamed Spindle City for its cotton mill heyday, now home to about 95,000 people, the largest Portuguese population of any US city, Battleship Cove, and the Lizzie Borden house.
Foxborough, Massachusetts
Foxborough (also Foxboro) is a Norfolk County, Massachusetts town incorporated June 10, 1778 and named for Charles James Fox; home of Gillette Stadium, the New England Patriots, and seven 2026 World Cup matches.
Framingham, Massachusetts
Framingham, Massachusetts, is a city of about 72,000 in Middlesex County, about 20 miles west of Boston, incorporated as a town in 1700 and as a city in 2018.
Gloucester, Massachusetts
Gloucester, Massachusetts, on Cape Ann 27 miles northeast of Boston, is America's oldest commercial fishing port, settled in 1623 by the Dorchester Company, incorporated as a town in 1642 and a city in 1873, population about 30,000.
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Great Barrington is a Berkshires town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, incorporated 1761 as Berkshire's shire town; population about 7,200, birthplace of W.E.B. Du Bois, first town lit by alternating current.
Greenwich, Connecticut
Greenwich, Connecticut: affluent Fairfield County town founded 1640, population 63,505, known for restrictive zoning, 5.93 percent affordable housing, and 2026 dispute over state zoning mandates.
Groton, Connecticut
Groton, Connecticut: a New London County town between the Thames and Mystic Rivers, settled 1650, incorporated 1705. Home of Electric Boat, Naval Submarine Base New London, the USS Nautilus, and the 'Submarine Capital of the World.'