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Delaware:
Delaware shares the Delmarva Peninsula with Maryland and Virginia;
this peninsula is located between Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay. The
state is bordered by Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the Atlantic
Ocean. As the first of the original thirteen colonies to ratify the
United States Constitution it is recognized as The First State. Learn
more...
Maryland:
Located in the eastern United States, Maryland is bordered by Pennsylvania
on the north, Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Virginia
and West Virginia along the Potomac River on the state's southern boundary.
Washington DC is carved out of Maryland at the Potomac. The state is
split into two sections--western Maryland and the Eastern Shore--by
the Chesapeake Bay. Learn more...
Massachusetts:
Much of America's early history was written in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:
the Stamp Act riots, Boston Tea Party, the battles at Lexington and
Concord, landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. The sixth smallest state
in land area, Massachusetts is located in the northeast United States
on the Atlantic seaboard. Its capital is Boston, the largest city in
New England. State population, mostly urban, is estimated at more than
6,100,000. Learn more...
New Jersey:
New
Jersey is at the heart of the megalopolis lying between New York City
and Philadelphia. It is bordered on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and
Hudson River, to the southwest by Delaware Bay, on the north by New
York, and separated from Delaware and Pennsylvania on the west by the
Delaware River. Learn more...
Pennsylvania:
As beneficiary of a royal land grant near the middle Atlantic seaboard
in 1681, William Penn established the colony of Pennsylvania which he
named after his father. The colony was to be a refuge for Quakers and
others seeking escape from religious intolerance. Originally it was
called The Quaker State and later The Keystone State when it emerged
as the cultural and geographical center of the thirteen American colonies.
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