In many of the stories about the origin of the United States, one place recurs: New England, the northeastern region comprising the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. This land was, of course, inhabited long before the Europeans arrived and claimed it as their own. Experts estimate there were between 70,000 and 100,000 Native Americans living here at the beginning of the 17th century, when the first English settlers arrived in modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts. The events that took place in the centuries that followed, from the founding of English colonies to the American War of Independence, would forever change the course of history.
New England’s red-brick cities and heritage sites are welcoming harbours for history- and culture-lovers — but the region offers much more. There…
