New Milford High School (Connecticut) New Milford High School Boys' cross-country (X-Country) team won its tenth consecutive Southwest Conference (SWC) title in 2011. They also won the New England title in back-to-back years in 2003 and 2004, a competition pitting the best 24 schools against each other out of more than 400 schools from Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, and Rhode Island. They also boasted a 75-meet win streak from September 11, 2001 until October 2007. The team won the 2012 State Open Championship as well. New Milford High School's wrestling team snapped Danbury's 260-match win streak and ended the year ranked #1 in Connecticut
New England state to state, primarily due to settlers throughout the region having named their new towns after their old ones. For example, the town of North Yarmouth, Maine was named by settlers from Yarmouth, Massachusetts, which was in turn named for Great Yarmouth in England. As another example, every New England state has a town named Warren, and every state except Rhode Island has a city or town named Andover, Bridgewater, Chester, Franklin, Manchester, Plymouth, Washington, and Windsor; in addition, every state except Connecticut has a Lincoln and a Richmond, and Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maine each contains a Franklin County. There