15/10/2024
LOVE the way these pointy churches look with the foliage! 🍁🍂🍁
There are so many of these white churches with the same architectural design all around New Hampshire and Vermont, and they always remind me of European architecture. I guess it makes sense, considering it’s called “New England.” My curiosity about why it’s called New England led me to refresh my memory on U.S. history… haha.
So here’s what I found: New England was literally named as a “new” England, after English colonists settled there in 1616. John Smith was the first to use the name to describe the region, and many colonists used names from their homeland for the cities we now know.
New England consists of 6 states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
In case you forgot US history, like myself, we (re)learned something today!