SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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Houses
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Town Common
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Shops and stores
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Large farms
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Detailed explanation-1: -In most parts of New England, except Vermont and Maine, towns are irregular in shape and size and are not laid out on a grid. The town center often contains a town common or town green, often used today as a small park.
Detailed explanation-2: -1781. The early central town commons were used for burying grounds and grazing land, in some cases with a pen or “close” for enclosing animals brought in from pasture.
Detailed explanation-3: -1 Answer. During the time of the Puritans the church was the center of life in New England.
Detailed explanation-4: -New England colonists built clustered settlements centered on an open area called a common.
Detailed explanation-5: -Plymouth Rock, granite slab upon which, according to tradition, the Pilgrim Fathers stepped first after disembarking from the Mayflower on December 26, 1620, at what became the colony of New Plymouth, the first permanent European settlement in New England.