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Pages in category "Quilt museums in the United States" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The New England Quilt Museum, founded in 1987, is located in downtown Lowell, Massachusetts and is the only institute in the Northeastern United States solely dedicated to the art and craft of quilting. It is the second-oldest quilt museum in the United States. [2] It houses special and permanent exhibits, a library, a museum shop, and classrooms.
Founded in 1977, the museum is the first in the United States devoted solely to quilts and textiles as an art form. [2] Holdings include a permanent collection of over 1,000 quilts, garments and ethnic textiles, emphasizing artists of the 20th- and 21st-century, and a research library with over 500 books concerning the history and techniques of ...
The Herring Run Quilters' Guild's biennial show will fill the Boys and Girls Club of Marshfield Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 24 and 25.
U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.
The narrowest definitions include only the states of New England. [72] Other more restrictive definitions include New England and New York as part of the Northeast United States, but exclude Pennsylvania and New Jersey. [73] [74] States beyond the Census Bureau definition are included in Northeast Region by various other entities:
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In northern New England—the states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont—the combined population density is 63.56/sq mi (2000 census). According to the 2006–08 American Community Survey, 48.7% of New Englanders were male and 51.3% were female. Approximately 22.4% of the population were under 18 years of age; 13.5% were over 65 years of age.