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?