Portal:New England/Did you know/4


 * ... that Mary Hallaren was the first woman to join the United States Army?
 * ... that Jeremiah Dummer (1643–1718) was the first American-born silversmith?
 * ... that the First Congregational Church of Litchfield, now regarded as iconic, was replaced in 1873 after being said to have "not a single line or feature ... suggesting taste or beauty"?
 * ... that although Massachusetts is located at the 42nd parallel north, some of its rocks originated near the South Pole?
 * ... that Nathaniel Ames, publisher of the first annual American almanac, avoided arrest by replacing his vituperative cartoon of local judges with a biblical quotation?