Massachusetts

Founded by Puritans at Massachusetts Bay in 1630 as a covenanted 'city upon a hill', Massachusetts became the intellectual and revolutionary cradle of the nation — home to the Boston Tea Party, Lexington and Concord, and Harvard, the oldest US college. Its town-meeting democracy and reform culture seeded abolitionism and public education. Today it anchors a knowledge economy of universities, medicine and finance.

• Existed: 1620 CE – present
• Type: Entity
• Government: U.S. State
• Capital: Boston