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Hanover, New Hampshire
Hanover, New Hampshire: Grafton County college town of about 12,000 on the Connecticut River, home of Dartmouth College (chartered 1761, college 1769). Known for high housing costs, conserved Moose Mountain lands, and Dartmouth-driven economy.
Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford, Connecticut: capital city on the Connecticut River, founded 1636 by Thomas Hooker, nicknamed the Insurance Capital of the World; about 122,000 residents, high poverty and segregation, mayor-council government under Arunan Arulampalam.
Holyoke, Massachusetts
Holyoke is a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, on the Connecticut River, laid out as one of the first planned industrial communities in the United States.
Ipswich, Massachusetts
Ipswich, Massachusetts: Essex County North Shore town incorporated 1634 on the Agawam site, settled 1633 by John Winthrop Jr.; noted for First Period houses, Crane Beach, and Plum Island refuges.
Kennebunkport, Maine
Kennebunkport, Maine, a York County town (3,629 residents, 2020) on the southern coast, settled as Cape Porpoise in 1653, known for shipbuilding history, its 1976 National Register historic district, Dock Square, and the Bush family's Walker's Point compound.
Lawrence, Massachusetts
Lawrence, Massachusetts: planned Essex County mill city on the Merrimack River, 25 miles north of Boston; founded 1845 by the Essex Company, site of the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike, population 89,143 (2020), largely Latino immigrant city.
Lewiston, Maine
Lewiston, Maine: second-largest city in Maine, on the Androscoggin River opposite Auburn. Textile mill city built on French Canadian immigration, later Somali refugee resettlement; site of the October 25, 2023 mass shooting that killed 18.
Lexington, Massachusetts
Lexington, Massachusetts: Middlesex County town 11 miles northwest of Boston, incorporated 1713, population 34,454 (2020). Site of the first battle of the American Revolution on April 19, 1775; called the Birthplace of American Liberty.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
Lincoln, New Hampshire: White Mountains town established 1782, once a J.E. Henry logging and paper company town with New England's largest logging railroad, now a tourism hub anchored by Loon Mountain Resort.
Longmeadow, Massachusetts
Longmeadow is a town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, immediately south of Springfield. Settled in 1636 and incorporated in 1783, it had 15,853 residents at the 2020 Census.
Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell, Massachusetts, is a city on the Merrimack River about 28 miles northwest of Boston, founded in 1822 as a planned industrial city and incorporated in 1836.
Lynn, Massachusetts
Lynn, Massachusetts: North Shore city north of Boston, incorporated 1850, once the nation's shoe center, later a GE industrial city; 2020 population 101,253, home to the 2,200-acre Lynn Woods municipal forest.
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts
Manchester-by-the-Sea is a coastal town in Essex County, Massachusetts, on Cape Ann; settled 1629, incorporated 1645 as Manchester, renamed 1989. Known for Singing Beach, a former fishing port turned Gilded Age summer colony, population about 5,400.
Manchester, New Hampshire
Manchester, New Hampshire, once the farming village of Derryfield, is the largest city in New Hampshire and northern New England, on the Merrimack River 58 miles from Boston.
Marblehead, Massachusetts
Marblehead, Massachusetts: coastal Essex County town founded 1629, 18 miles north of Boston on the North Shore. Former fishing port turned yachting center; about 20,441 residents, open town meeting government, and a harbor with six yacht clubs and 1,800 moorings.
Medford, Massachusetts
Medford, Massachusetts: Middlesex County city on the Mystic River, settled 1630 as Matthew Cradock's private plantation, third oldest Massachusetts settlement, later a shipbuilding, brick, and rum center, home of Tufts University, population about 60,000.
Middletown, Connecticut
Middletown, Connecticut, is a city on the Connecticut River 16 miles south of Hartford. Incorporated in 1650, it was once a wealthy sailing port and is now the college town supporting Wesleyan University.
Montpelier, Vermont
Montpelier, Vermont: capital of Vermont since 1805 and the smallest U.S. state capital, with about 8,000 residents at the confluence of the Winooski and North Branch rivers, site of the gold-domed Vermont State House and the July 2023 flood.
Nashua, New Hampshire
Nashua, New Hampshire, second-largest NH city (91,851 in 2024) at the Nashua–Merrimack river confluence; founded as Dunstable, renamed for the Nashua River, industrial textile city chartered 1823, incorporated as a city 1853.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
New Bedford, Massachusetts, is a southeastern Massachusetts city on Buzzards Bay, once the world's leading whaling port and today the highest-valued fishing port in the United States.
New Britain, Connecticut
New Britain, Connecticut: the "Hardware City" of central Connecticut, home of Stanley Works (founded 1843) and Stanley Black & Decker; parish from 1754, city since 1871, population about 74,000.
New Canaan, Connecticut
New Canaan, Connecticut: Fairfield County town bordering New York, incorporated 1801 from Canaan Parish, once a shoemaking center, now known for Harvard Five modernist homes and the Glass House.
New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven, Connecticut: coastal city of about 138,000 (2025 est.), founded 1638 by Eaton and Davenport, co-capital 1701-1873, home of Yale University since 1716, its largest employer, and the state's housing-permit leader.
New London, Connecticut
New London, Connecticut: the Whaling City on the Thames River, Connecticut's only deep-water port. Founded 1646 by John Winthrop Jr.; second-largest whaling port by 1847; burned by Benedict Arnold in 1781; home of the Coast Guard Academy and first US submarine base.
New Milford, Connecticut
New Milford, Connecticut (Weeantenock) is a Litchfield County town on the Housatonic River, founded 1702-1712, largest Connecticut town by area at 64 square miles, population 28,115 (2020), home to Candlewood Lake and Lover's Leap State Park.
Newport, Rhode Island
Newport, Rhode Island: coastal city on southern Aquidneck Island, founded 1639 by Coddington and Easton; colonial seaport, Gilded Age mansions, tourism economy, 25,163 residents (2020).
Newton, Massachusetts
Newton, Massachusetts: the Garden City, a suburban city seven miles west of Boston with 13 villages, about 90,700 residents (2025 est.), median household income $190,304, and full MBTA Communities Act compliance.
Newtown, Connecticut
Newtown is a town in Fairfield County, southwestern Connecticut, about 60 miles from New York City, incorporated 1711, population about 28,183 (2025 estimate). It includes Sandy Hook, site of the December 14, 2012 school shooting, and the Borough of Newtown, one of Connecticut's nine boroughs.
Northampton, Massachusetts
Northampton, Massachusetts is a city of roughly 30,000 people on the Connecticut River in the Pioneer Valley, the Hampshire County seat and home to Smith College.
Norwalk, Connecticut
Norwalk is a coastal city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, on Long Island Sound, founded in 1651, with a 2020 population of 91,184 and an oystering and seaport heritage.