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East Rutherford, New Jersey
East Rutherford is a Bergen County, New Jersey borough (incorporated 1894, pop. about 10,500) in the Meadowlands, home to MetLife Stadium, the New York Jets and Giants, and the American Dream mall.
Easton, Pennsylvania
Easton, Pennsylvania: county seat of Northampton County at the Delaware-Lehigh river confluence, founded 1752 by the Penns, site of a 1776 Declaration reading, population about 30,000, home of Crayola Experience.
Elizabeth, New Jersey
Elizabeth, New Jersey: founded 1664 as Elizabethtown, first permanent English settlement and first capital of New Jersey; Union County seat of about 137,000, home to the Port Newark–Elizabeth container terminal and Singer factory history.
Ellicott City, Maryland
Ellicott City, Maryland: historic Howard County mill town founded in 1772 by the Ellicott brothers on the Patapsco River; county seat, National Register district (1978), population 75,947 (2020), known for 2016 and 2018 floods and the Safe and Sound mitigation plan.
Elmira, New York
Elmira, New York: county seat of Chemung County in the Southern Tier near Pennsylvania, on the Chemung River. 26,523 residents (2020); known for the 1972 Agnes flood, its Civil War prison camp, and Mark Twain's grave.
Englewood, New Jersey
Englewood is a city in Bergen County, New Jersey, in the New York metropolitan area, incorporated in 1899 and home to about 30,000 people, including Dizzy Gillespie in later life.
Erie, Pennsylvania
Erie, Pennsylvania: the state's fifth-largest city and only Great Lakes port, on Presque Isle Bay. Known as the Flagship City for Perry's 1813 Battle of Lake Erie fleet built there; 2020 population 94,831.
Fort Lee, New Jersey
Fort Lee is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, on the Hudson River opposite Manhattan, named for Washington's 1776 encampment, birthplace of the American film industry, and home of the George Washington Bridge.
Frederick, Maryland
Frederick, Maryland: county seat of Frederick County, founded 1745 by Daniel Dulany the Elder, incorporated 1817, mayor-council government, population about 92,000 (2025 estimate), home to Fort Detrick, a National Register historic district, and MARC rail service to Washington.
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Gaithersburg is a Montgomery County, Maryland city of about 69,657 (2020 census), home to NIST's 578-acre headquarters campus, reached by the 1873 B&O Metropolitan Branch, with 44.3% foreign-born residents.
Germantown, Maryland
Germantown, Maryland: unincorporated Montgomery County CDP, third most populous place in Maryland (91,249 in 2020). Founded by German settlers in the 1830s; shifted to the B&O Metropolitan Branch in 1873; planned six-village corridor city on I-270.
Glen Cove, New York
Glen Cove, New York, a city on Long Island's North Shore in Nassau County, founded 1668 as Musketa Cove, renamed 1834, incorporated 1917; population 28,365 (2020), known for Gold Coast estates and the Garvies Point waterfront redevelopment.
Glens Falls, New York
Glens Falls is a small Hudson River city in Warren County, New York, near the southern Adirondacks, population about 14,400. Known as Gateway to the Adirondacks, incorporated 1908, anchored by health care and a $10 million state downtown revitalization.
Hackensack, New Jersey
Hackensack, New Jersey: county seat of Bergen County on the Hackensack River, 4.6 square miles, population 46,030 (2020). Lenape and Dutch origins, Washington's 1776 retreat, chartered 1921, diverse and redeveloping.
Hagerstown, Maryland
Hagerstown, Maryland, the Washington County seat and "Hub City," founded 1762 by Jonathan Hager; a railroad and I-70/I-81 crossroads of about 44,000 people near Antietam battlefield.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: capital of the Commonwealth since 1812 and Dauphin County seat since 1785, on the Susquehanna River. 2020 population 50,099; founded from Harris' Ferry, chartered as a city in 1860.
Havre de Grace, Maryland
Havre de Grace, Maryland: a Harford County city at the mouth of the Susquehanna River on the Chesapeake Bay, named by Lafayette, incorporated 1785, burned by the British in 1813, home to Concord Point Lighthouse and the Decoy Museum, population about 15,000.
Hazleton, Pennsylvania
Hazleton, Pennsylvania: Luzerne County city in the Pocono foothills, once an anthracite coal boomtown (peak 38,009 in 1940), now about 63% Hispanic; first US city to pass a 2006 Illegal Immigration Relief Act, struck down in federal court.
Hempstead, New York
Hempstead, New York: an incorporated village in the Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, Long Island. Founded 1643, first self-governing incorporated village (1853), site of the 1665 Duke's Laws convention; about 59,000 residents.
Hershey, Pennsylvania
Hershey, Pennsylvania: unincorporated community in Derry Township, Dauphin County, founded 1903 by Milton S. Hershey around his chocolate factory; home of Hersheypark, the Milton Hershey School, and The Hershey Company headquarters.
History of New York City
History of New York City: from Lenape homeland and Dutch New Amsterdam (1624) through English New York (1664), the 1898 five-borough consolidation, immigration waves, and growth to a metropolis of over eight million.
Hoboken, New Jersey
Hoboken is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, on the Hudson River across from Manhattan; it is the birthplace of Frank Sinatra and one of the nation's densest cities.
Hudson, New York
Hudson, New York: small Columbia County city founded 1783 by Nantucket Quaker whalers at Claverack Landing, incorporated 1785 as New York's third city; whaling port, later gentrifying Amtrak-linked antiques and arts town of about 5,900.
Huntington, New York
Town of Huntington, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York: founded 1653 by deed from the Matinecock sachem Raseokan; about 204,000 residents, 94 square miles, four incorporated villages, and LIRR commuter rail service.
Hyde Park, New York
Hyde Park, New York: a town in Dutchess County on the Hudson River, home of Franklin D. Roosevelt, three national park sites, the first presidential library, and the Culinary Institute of America; population 21,021 (2020).
Ithaca, New York
Ithaca, New York: Finger Lakes city and Tompkins County seat at Cayuga Lake's southern tip, home of Cornell University and Ithaca College; education dominates its economy, with 67.7% of adults holding bachelor's degrees.
Jamestown, New York
Jamestown, New York: the Pearl City, largest city of Chautauqua County in the Southern Tier; founded 1806 by James Prendergast, furniture-manufacturing past, 28,712 residents (2020), municipal BPU utilities, National Comedy Center.
Jersey City, New Jersey
Jersey City, New Jersey: second-largest New Jersey city (302,013 est. 2025), county seat of Hudson County across from Manhattan. Historic Paulus Hook, dense transit-rich waterfront, 41.7% foreign-born, 2026 budget crisis with 15.15% tax increase under Mayor James Solomon.
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania (formerly Mauch Chunk), borough and Carbon County seat renamed in 1954 for the athlete buried there; population 4,507; known for Victorian architecture, the Lehigh Gorge, and scenic railway tourism.
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Johnstown, Pennsylvania: Cambria County city founded in 1800 by Joseph Johns, a steel center hit by the 1889 South Fork Dam flood (2,209 deaths) and floods of 1936 and 1977; population 18,411 in 2020.