Industrialization in New England spread inland, aided by canal lines built during the first thirty years of the nineteenth century. Canals reached into the back country from such shore cities as New Haven, Providence, Boston, and Portland, increasing rural access to these ports. When the railroads came in the 1840s and 1850s, they at first … Read more

As the many New England nautical trades died away, fishing became the last holdout. The Revolution and later difficulties with England kept fishing on the Grand Banks erratic (the final questions of American rights were not resolved until 1910), and after the War of 1812, many towns turned from working the Banks to chasing the … Read more

The first humans to make their appearance on the North American continent crossed over from Asia about 26,000 years ago in a lull between glacial advances. Only with the final retreat of the glacial front about 10,000 years ago did they enter the New England region. These first inhabitants were migratory hunters, who followed the … Read more

Then came the Pilgrims, about a hundred strong. English religious Separatists and their servants, these “Pilgrims” (the word did not actually come into use until after the American Revolution) deplored Stuart absolutism, decried the “idolatrous” religious conventions of the Church of England, and refused to comply with the rules of conformity dictated by the Church … Read more

There are few Americans today who are such strangers to the fabled history of the New England shore that they can approach the region with an unaffected eye. This stretch of land, where Yankees abode with the sea, somehow perpetually evokes its past. One’s view of it today has become an inseparable mix of present … Read more

Times changed quickly for the seaport towns after the War of 1812. European competition and American intransigence over treaty terms with England slowly dried up the old profits. The size of merchant vessels doubled in a decade, and the new ones could no longer navigate shallow harbors such as those of Nantucket, Newburyport, and the … Read more

In the age of sail and the early years of steam, New England’s tourists first explored the cities and surrounding countryside. In the decades preceding the Civil War, those with time and money to spare visited New Haven, Newport, Portland, and, most of all, Boston. Crowds strolled the Common, viewed the Athenaeum’s works of art, … Read more

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