Facts about Vermont
An important and growing part of Vermont's economy is the manufacture and sale of artisan foods, fancy foods, and novelty items trading in part upon the Vermont "brand" which the state manages and defends.
Vermont became the 14th state to join the United States, following a 14-year period during and after the Revolutionary War as the independent Republic of Vermont.
Logging similarly fell off as over-cutting and the exploitation of other forests made Vermont's forest less attractive.
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America.
In 2007, about 13 percent of Vermont's population supported Vermont's withdrawal from the Republic.
Categorized by geological and physical attributes, they are the Northeastern Highlands, the Green Mountains, the Taconic Mountains, the Champlain Lowlands, the Valley of Vermont and the Vermont Piedmont.
Lake Champlain, the major lake in Vermont, is the sixth-largest body of fresh water in the United States and separates Vermont from New York in the northwest portion of the state.
In 2003, Vermont was ranked the safest state in the nation to live, and was ranked fourth safest for 2008, by Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
Vermonters, if not Vermont units, participated in every major battle of the war.
The Brattleboro-based Vermont Theatre Company presents an annual summer Shakespeare festival.
Residents of British ancestry (especially English) live throughout most of Vermont.
Annual snowfall averages between 60 to 100 inches (150–250 cm) depending on elevation, giving Vermont some of New England's best cross-country and downhill ski areas.
The Vermont Constitution outlines and guarantees broad rights for its citizens.
Until 1992, Vermont had supported a Democrat for president only once since the party's founding—in Lyndon Johnson's 1964 landslide victory against Barry Goldwater.
The Vermont Republic issued its own currency, coins and operated a statewide postal service.
By the mid-nineteenth century, an expansion in settlement and population, along with increased prosperity, brought grammar schools to all corners of Vermont.
Vermont's population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, was estimated at 626,042 in 2015.
Areas in Vermont administered by the National Park Service include the Appalachian National Scenic Trail and the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock.
Vermont collects personal income tax in a progressive structure of five different income brackets, ranging from 3.6 percent to 9.5 percent.
A large proportion of Vermont’s state and national-level politicians for several decades after the Civil War were veterans.
Vermont continued to govern itself as a sovereign entity based in the eastern town of Windsor for fourteen years.
Vermont's hillsides are covered with pine, spruce, fir, hemlock, maple and birch trees.
The service sector of the United Kingdom is dominated by financial services, especially in banking and insurance.
Vermonters elect a state governor and lieutenant governor on separate tickets, meaning that the offices can be filled by members of different parties.
At the University of Vermont, George Perkins Marsh and later the influence of Vermont-born philosopher and educator John Dewey brought about the concepts of electives and learning-by-doing.
In 2001, Vermont produced 275,000 US gallons (1,040,000 L) of maple syrup, about one-quarter of U.S. production.
In 1741, George II ruled that Massachusetts's claims in Vermont and New Hampshire were invalid and fixed Massachusetts's northern boundary at its present location.
First settled by farmers, loggers and hunters, Vermont lost much of its population as farmers moved west into the Great Plains in search of abundant, easily tilled land.
The Vermont Symphony Orchestra is supported by the state and performs throughout the region.
Several of Vermont's mountains have timberlines: Mount Mansfield, the highest mountain in the state, as well as Killington are examples.
The largest city in Vermont, Burlington, which has a population of less than 40,000.
An 1854 Vermont Senate report on slavery echoed the Vermont Constitution's first article, on the rights of all men, questioning how a government could favor the rights of one people over another.
A Catholic Church survey in 1990 reported that 25 percent of Vermonters were members of the Catholic Church, although more than that self-identify as Catholics.
General John Stark became widely known as the "Hero of Bennington," and the anniversary of the battle is still celebrated in Vermont as a legal holiday known as "Bennington Battle Day.
The first permanent British settlement was established in 1724, with the construction of Fort Dummer in Vermont's far southeast.
Brattleboro also hosts the summertime Strolling of the Heifers parade which celebrates Vermont's unique dairy culture.
Between 8500 to 7000 B.C.E., at the time of the Champlain Sea, Native peoples inhabited and hunted in Vermont.
The report fueled growth of the abolition movement in the state, and in response, a resolution from the Georgia General Assembly authorizing the "towing of Vermont out to sea."
Joseph Smith, Jr. and Brigham Young—the first two leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—were both born in Vermont.
On January 18, 1777, representatives of the New Hampshire Grants convened in Westminster and declared the independence of the Vermont Republic.
Vermont festivals include the Vermont Maple Festival, Festival on the Green, the Apple Festival (held each Columbus Day Weekend), the Marlboro Music Festival, and the Vermont Mozart Festival.
Almost 5,200 Vermonters, 15 percent, were killed or mortally wounded in action or died of disease.
The accompanying lack of industry has allowed Vermont to avoid many of the ill-effects of 20th century industrial busts, effects that still plague neighboring states.
Among the most famous of the Vermont units were the 1st Vermont Brigade, the 2nd Vermont Brigade, and the 1st Vermont Cavalry.
The Constitution's first chapter, "Declaration of the Rights of the Inhabitants of The State of Vermont" prohibited slavery and indentured servitude, and allowed for universal suffrage for men, regardless of property ownership.
Vermont's state parks, historic sites, museums, golf courses, and new boutique hotels with spas were designed to attract tourists.
The state's unique history and history of independent political thought has led to movements for the establishment of the Second Vermont Republic and other plans advocating secession.
According to the Burlington Free Press, Vermont was named the nation's smartest state in 2005 and 2006.
Adherents to the Mormon faith, however, constitute less than a single percentage point of Vermont's population.
Vermont's railroads expanded and were linked to national systems, agricultural output and export soared and incomes increased.
The Province of New Hampshire also claimed Vermont based upon a decree of George II in 1740.
The Vermont government maintains a proactive stance regarding the environment, social services, and prevention of urbanization.
The mid to late 1850s saw a transition from Vermonters mostly favoring slavery's containment, to a far more serious opposition to the institution, producing the Radical Republican and abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens.
The northernmost land action of the war, the St. Albans Raid, took place in Vermont.
Vermont's state legislature is the Vermont General Assembly, a bicameral body composed of the Vermont House of Representatives (the lower house) and the Vermont Senate (the upper house).
The sugar maple is the state tree, and its abundance has made Vermont the number one state in the nation in maple syrup production.
Vermont was covered with shallow seas periodically from the Cambrian to Devonian periods.
The grants sparked a dispute with the New York governor, who began granting charters of his own for New Yorker settlement in Vermont.
Vermont's sovereignty was challenged by New York, New Hampshire, Great Britain, and the new United States.
France claimed Vermont as part of New France, and in 1666, erected Fort Sainte Anne on Isle La Motte in Lake Champlain.
Comprising 9,614 square miles (24,902 kmІ), Vermont is one of the smallest states; only five are smaller.
Vermont has a continental moist climate, with warm, humid summers and cold winters, which become colder at higher elevations.
The first European to see Vermont is thought to have been Jacques Cartier, in 1535.
During the Seven Years War, locally known as the French and Indian War, some Vermont settlers, including Ethan Allen, joined the colonial militia assisting the British in attacks on the French.
Sometime between 1500 and 1600, the Iroquois drove many of the smaller native tribes out of Vermont, later using the area as a hunting ground and warring with the remaining Abenaki.
Vermont is the birthplace of former presidents Calvin Coolidge and Chester A. Arthur.
Areas in Vermont administered by the National Park Service include the Appalachian National Scenic Trail and the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock.
Over one-fifth of Vermonters identify themselves as non-religious, tying Vermont with Oregon as having the second-highest percentage of non-religious people in the United States.
In Baker v. Vermont (1999), the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that, under the Constitution of Vermont, the state must either allow same-sex marriage or provide a separate but equal status for them.
The sugar maple is the state tree, and its abundance has made Vermont the number one state in the nation in maple syrup production.
Hay, maple products, apples, and sweet corn are other major products. Hay, oats and grain corn are grown to feed Vermont livestock. Leading vegetables grown in the state are sweet corn and potatoes. Apples (official state fruit & pie) are the largest fruit crop.
Vermont is an English form of the name that French explorer Samuel de Champlain gave to Vermont's Green Mountains on his 1647 map. He called them "Verd Mont" meaning green mountain.Jul 28, 2017
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The first Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream store opened in Burlington in 1978. Vermont leads the country in production of marble. Vermont was, at various times, claimed by both New Hampshire and New York. ... Vermont is the largest producer of maple syrup in the U.S., producing over 500,000 gallons a year.
Vermont is known for foods like Vermont cheddar cheese, maple syrup and the ever-popular Ben and Jerry's ice cream. It is also home to many farms, artisan foods, fresh produce, wineries and breweries.
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