The sloping, extended roof helped snow melt and slide to the ground more efficiently in the harsher New England winters. It's also said that the tax on two-story homes levied by Queen Anne in the ...

History professor Paolo DiGregorio will be back on the Foxborough Common on Thursday, Aug. 26 at 4:30 p.m. for a history lecture on “The Commons: The Creation of Colonial New ...

The no-holds-barred fishing of Sawyer’s youth will probably never return to this historic, centuries-old New England port north of Boston that was the setting for the book and the movie “The ...

Englishmen first landed in New Hampshire to establish a fishing colony in 1623. ... New England. As one of the original 13 colonies, New Hampshire's oldest town is over 400 years old.

New England's woody hills and dales hide a secret—they weren't always forested. Instead, many were once covered with colonial roads and farmsteads. This "lost" New England of the colonial era ...

In the New England region, some of the people who were trafficked across the Atlantic Ocean in the early 1700s were of royal African heritage. They were brought to the area and forced to work at ...