Portal:Vermont

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Vermont (/vərˈmɒnt/ ^ⓘ) is a landlocked New England state in the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the state had a population of 643,503, ranking it the second least populated U.S. state ahead of Wyoming. It is the nation's sixth smallest state in area. The state's capital of Montpelier is the least populous U.S. state capital. No other U.S. state has a most populous city with fewer residents than Burlington. Vermont is also well known for being the largest producer of true maple syrup in the United States for over 200 years.

Native Americans have inhabited the area for some 12,000 years. The competitive tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Abenaki and Iroquoian-speaking Mohawk were active in the area at the time of European encounter. During the 17th century, French colonists claimed the territory as part of the Kingdom of France's colony of New France. After the Kingdom of Great Britain began to settle colonies to the south along the Atlantic coast, the two nations competed in North America in addition to Europe. After being defeated in 1763 in the Seven Years' War, France ceded its territory east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain.

Thereafter, the nearby British Thirteen Colonies, especially the provinces of New Hampshire and New York, disputed the extent of the area called the New Hampshire Grants to the west of the Connecticut River, encompassing present-day Vermont. The provincial government of New York sold land grants to settlers in the region, which conflicted with earlier grants from the government of New Hampshire. The Green Mountain Boys militia protected the interests of the established New Hampshire land grant settlers against the newly arrived settlers with land titles granted by New York. Ultimately, a group of settlers with New Hampshire land grant titles established the Vermont Republic in 1777 as an independent state during the American Revolutionary War. The Vermont Republic abolished slavery before any other U.S. state. It was admitted to the Union in 1791 as the 14th state. (Full article...)

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The station (left) and the former Railway Express Agency building in 2015

Bellows Falls station is an Amtrak intercity rail station located in the Bellows Falls village of Rockingham, Vermont, United States. The station is served by the single daily round trip of the Washington, D.C.–St. Albans Vermonter. It has a single side platform adjacent to the single track of the New England Central Railroad (ex-Central Vermont) mainline.

Three railroads—the Sullivan County Railroad, Cheshire Railroad, and Rutland and Burlington Railroad—were completed to Bellows Falls in 1849, followed by the Vermont Valley Railroad in 1851. This placed Bellows Falls at the junction of two major trunk lines: Boston–Burlington via Rutland and Fitchburg, and New York–Montreal via New Haven and White River Junction. A two-story brick station was constructed in 1851 at the junction of the four railroads. After a number of mergers and leases over the next half-century, service was consolidated into three major railroads by 1900. The Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M) and Central Vermont (CV) ran north–south service through Bellows Falls, while the B&M and Rutland Railroad collaborated on east–west traffic on the Boston–Montreal route via Bellows Falls. (Full article...)

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Ella Seaver Owen, "A woman of the century"

Ella Seaver Owen (February 26, 1852 – November 11, 1910) was an American artist and teacher. For many years, she taught oil, watercolor, and china painting, and was one of the pioneers, outside of New York City, in china firing. Owen was one of the first women admitted to the University of Vermont, and was one of the founders of the Alpha Rho out of which grew Lambda of Kappa Alpha Theta. (Full article...)

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Image 1Western face of Camel's Hump Mountain (elevation 4,079 feet (1,243 m)) (from Vermont)
Image 2The Lyndon Institute, a high school in Lyndon, Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 3Lake Champlain (from Vermont)
Image 4Fall foliage at Lake Willoughby (from Vermont)
Image 5The Ethan Allen Express alongside the Island Line Trail in Burlington (from Vermont)
Image 6The West Dummerston Bridge, the longest covered bridge in Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 7Map of Vermont showing cities, roads, and rivers (from Vermont)
Image 8Western face of Camel's Hump Mountain (elevation 4,079 feet (1,243 m)) (from Vermont)
Image 9Silurian and Devonian stratigraphy of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 10Map of Vermont showing cities, roads, and rivers (from Vermont)
Image 11Mount Mansfield, at 4,393 feet (1,339 m), is the highest-elevation point in Vermont. Other high points are Killington Peak, Mount Ellen, Mount Abraham, and Camel's Hump. The lowest point in the state is Lake Champlain at 95 feet (29 m). The state's average elevation is 1,000 feet (300 m). (from History of Vermont)
Image 12The Vermont Supreme Court's building in Montpelier (from Vermont)
Image 13Köppen climate types of Vermont, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from Vermont)
Image 14The Vermont Supreme Court's building in Montpelier (from Vermont)
Image 15The hermit thrush, the state bird of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 16Edward F. Knapp State Airport in Berlin (from Vermont)
Image 17Fall foliage at Lake Willoughby (from Vermont)
Image 18Stowe Resort Village (from Vermont)
Image 191791 Act of Congress admitting Vermont into the Union (from Vermont)
Image 20Vermontasaurus sculpture in Post Mills, in 2010 (from Vermont)
Image 21The former Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, in Vernon (from Vermont)
Image 22Vellum manuscript of the Constitution of Vermont, 1777. This constitution was amended in 1786, and again in 1793, two years after Vermont's admission to the federal union in 1791. See Constitution of Vermont (1777) and Constitution of Vermont. (from History of Vermont)
Image 23The Old Constitution House at Windsor, where the Constitution of Vermont was adopted on July 8, 1777 (from Vermont)
Image 24Silurian and Devonian stratigraphy of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 25Watercolor of Abenaki couple, 1700s (from Vermont)
Image 26The University of Vermont's Old Mill, the oldest building on campus (from Vermont)
Image 27Fall foliage seen from Hogback Mountain, Wilmington (from Vermont)
Image 28MVRTD's "The Bus" in Rutland (from Vermont)
Image 29Vermont Route 17 in Addison with Snake Mountain at right (from Vermont)
Image 30Vermontasaurus sculpture in Post Mills, in 2010 (from Vermont)
Image 31Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and Representative Peter Welch greet supporters in 2017.
Image 32Autumn in Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 33Autumn in Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 34The gold leaf dome of the neoclassical Vermont State House (Capitol) in Montpelier (from Vermont)
Image 35The Cumberland ice-breaking ferry headed toward Grand Isle in winter (from Vermont)
Image 36The Old Constitution House at Windsor, where the Constitution of Vermont was adopted on July 8, 1777 (from Vermont)
Image 37MVRTD's "The Bus" in Rutland (from Vermont)
Image 38The former Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, in Vernon (from Vermont)
Image 39Vermont towns hold a March town meeting for voters to approve the town's budget and decide other matters. Marlboro voters meet in this building. (from Vermont)
Image 40Vermont towns hold a March town meeting for voters to approve the town's budget and decide other matters. Marlboro voters meet in this building. (from Vermont)
Image 41Vermont in 1827. The county boundaries have since changed. (from Vermont)
Image 42Vermont Route 17 in Addison with Snake Mountain at right (from Vermont)
Image 43Vermont in 1827. The county boundaries have since changed. (from Vermont)
Image 44A proportional representation of Vermont exports, 2020 (from Vermont)
Image 45The Lyndon Institute, a high school in Lyndon, Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 46The Ethan Allen Express alongside the Island Line Trail in Burlington (from Vermont)
Image 47The University of Vermont's Old Mill, the oldest building on campus (from Vermont)
Image 48Lake Champlain (from Vermont)
Image 49Fall foliage seen from Hogback Mountain, Wilmington (from Vermont)
Image 50The hermit thrush, the state bird of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 51The gold leaf dome of the Vermont State House in Montpelier is visible for many miles around the city. This is the third State House on the site, and like the second, was built in the Greek Revival architectural style. It was completed in 1857. Montpelier became the state capital in 1805. (from History of Vermont)
Image 52Mount Mansfield (from Vermont)
Image 53Population density of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 54The flag of the Green Mountain Boys (from History of Vermont)
Image 55A c.1775 flag used by the Green Mountain Boys (from Vermont)
Image 56Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and Representative Peter Welch greet supporters in 2017.
Image 57Mount Mansfield (from Vermont)
Image 58Köppen climate types of Vermont, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from Vermont)
Image 59Stowe Resort Village (from Vermont)
Image 60A c.1775 flag used by the Green Mountain Boys (from Vermont)
Image 61The gold leaf dome of the neoclassical Vermont State House (Capitol) in Montpelier (from Vermont)
Image 62The Cumberland ice-breaking ferry headed toward Grand Isle in winter (from Vermont)
Image 63A proportional representation of Vermont exports, 2020 (from Vermont)
Image 64The West Dummerston Bridge, the longest covered bridge in Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 65Edward F. Knapp State Airport in Berlin (from Vermont)
Image 66Population density of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 671791 Act of Congress admitting Vermont into the Union (from Vermont)
Image 68Watercolor of Abenaki couple, 1700s (from Vermont)

Did you know -

... that Burlington Union Station is home to winged monkeys?
... that Amtrak called the Vermont Rail System the worst host railroad in the country in 2010 due to delays on the Ethan Allen Express?
... that in 1979, Vermont ETV received more donations from viewers in Quebec than it did from Vermonters?
... that Vermont folk musician Pete Sutherland hosted concerts at his house for $10—or $9 if you brought your own chair?
... that on every Christmas Eve since 1994, Willem Lange's story about the fruitcake-delivering farmer Favor Johnson is broadcast on public radio stations in Vermont?
... that an apparently jobless man wearing a cardboard box who taped himself to a lamppost was actually a new DJ for a Vermont radio station?

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Cities

Vermont has nine incorporated cities.

City populations (2010 Census)
City	Population
Burlington	42,417
South Burlington	17,904
Rutland	16,495
Barre	9,052
Montpelier	7,855
Winooski	7,267
St. Albans	6,918
Newport	5,005
Vergennes	2,741

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