New England village

Colonial settlement remnant

A New England village is a small town in the northeastern United States characterized by white-steepled churches, town commons, clapboard houses, and fall foliage—the archetypal image of colonial American settlement.

The term evokes quaintness, tradition, and community: They retired to a quiet New England village in Vermont.

Often idealized in American cultural imagination.

Related

stone walls · fishing harbors · covered bridges · Connecticut · cranberry bogs · quilting bees · general stores · church supper · Rhode Island · rocky coastlines · New Hampshire · farming communities · fall harvest · pine forests · Maine · freshwater lakes · dairy production · Cape Cod

Opposites
settlement scale and density

New England villagemetropolis

Large important city

major city · megalopolis · megacity · urban center · big city

settlement form and planning

New England villagesuburban sprawl

Unplanned outward residential development

exurb · bedroom community · master-planned community

temporal and aesthetic character

New England villageboom town

Fast-growing prosperous settlement

Family

newest, newness, renewal, England, English, Englishman, village, villages, villager

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G