- Rhode Island’s full name is “Rhode Island and Providence Plantations”
- 98% of the wild blueberries in the world come from Maine
- Vermont has the most breweries of any U.S. state
- 2014 is the 250th year of the “Hartford Courant” newspaper, the oldest continuously published paper in the country
- 20% of U.S. historical landmarks are located in our smallest state, Rhode Island
- Vermont has the highest ratio of dairy cows to people of any U.S. state
- Newport, Rhode Island, boasts of the nation’s first traffic law in 1678, and the first traffic ticket in 1904
- Maine has more miles of coastline than California
