Yep... named after "The Haven"... in Boston... Boston, Lincolnshire. Today you also learned that there was a conspiracy by exiles to recreate a "new" England... in New England. (They also reused names between states: Worcester in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, etc.)
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carbanara ago
TIL: There is a city named New Haven
pitenius ago
Yep... named after "The Haven"... in Boston... Boston, Lincolnshire. Today you also learned that there was a conspiracy by exiles to recreate a "new" England... in New England. (They also reused names between states: Worcester in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, etc.)