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Vermont (/vərˈmɒnt/ (listen)) is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. Vermont 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. Admitted to the Union in 1791 as the 14th state, it is the only state in New England not bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. According to the 2020 U.S. census, the state has a population of 643,503, ranking it the second least-populated in the U.S. after Wyoming. It is also the nation's sixth-smallest state in area. The state's capital Montpelier is the least-populous state capital in the U.S., while its most-populous city, Burlington, is the least-populous to be a state's largest.

For some 12,000 years, indigenous peoples have inhabited this area. 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 of the other states. (Full article...)

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Matthew Lyon (July 14, 1749 – August 1, 1822) was an Irish-born American printer, farmer, soldier and politician, who served as a United States representative from both Vermont and Kentucky.

Lyon represented Vermont in Congress from 1797 to 1801, and represented Kentucky from 1803 to 1811. His tenure in Congress was tumultuous. He brawled with one Congressman, and was jailed on charges of violating the Sedition Act, winning re-election to Congress from inside his jail cell. (Full article...)

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Helen Hartness Flanders (May 19, 1890 – May 23, 1972), a native of the U.S. state of Vermont, was an internationally recognized ballad collector and an authority on the folk music found in New England and the British Isles. At the initiative of the Vermont Commission on Country Life, Flanders commenced a three-decade career capturing traditional songs that were sung in New England—songs that, in many cases, traced their origin to the British Isles. The timing of her life work was critical, coming as it did when people were turning away from traditional music in favor of listening to the radio. Today her nearly 4,500 field recordings, transcriptions and analyses are housed at the Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont and have been a resource for scholars and folk singers, since the establishment of the collection in 1941. (Full article...)

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Image 1Mount 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 2Vermontasaurus sculpture in Post Mills, in 2010 (from Vermont)
Image 3Mount Mansfield (from Vermont)
Image 4Vermont Route 17 in Addison with Snake Mountain at right (from Vermont)
Image 5The Ethan Allen Express alongside the Island Line Trail in Burlington (from Vermont)
Image 6Fall foliage seen from Hogback Mountain, Wilmington (from Vermont)
Image 7A proportional representation of Vermont exports, 2020 (from Vermont)
Image 8A circa 1775 flag used by the Green Mountain Boys (from Vermont)
Image 9Population density of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 10The University of Vermont
Old Mill, the oldest building of the university (from Vermont)
Image 11The Lyndon Institute, a high school in Lyndon, Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 12Köppen climate types of Vermont, using 1991–2020 climate normals. (from Vermont)
Image 13Autumn in Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 141791 Act of Congress admitting Vermont into the Union (from Vermont)
Image 15The flag of the Green Mountain Boys (from History of Vermont)
Image 16Map of Vermont showing cities, roads, and rivers (from Vermont)
Image 17The Lyndon Institute, a high school in Lyndon, Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 18The Cumberland ice-breaking ferry headed toward Grand Isle in winter (from Vermont)
Image 19Vermontasaurus sculpture in Post Mills, in 2010 (from Vermont)
Image 20The hermit thrush, the state bird of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 21Western face of Camel's Hump Mountain (elevation 4,079 feet (1,243 m)). (from Vermont)
Image 22A circa 1775 flag used by the Green Mountain Boys (from Vermont)
Image 23Vermont in 1827. The county boundaries have since changed. (from Vermont)
Image 24The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, in Vernon (from Vermont)
Image 25MVRTD's "The Bus" in Rutland (from Vermont)
Image 26Silurian and Devonian stratigraphy of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 27The Cumberland ice-breaking ferry headed toward Grand Isle in winter (from Vermont)
Image 28The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, in Vernon (from Vermont)
Image 29Stowe Resort Village (from Vermont)
Image 30Vellum 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 31A proportional representation of Vermont exports, 2020 (from Vermont)
Image 32Edward F. Knapp State Airport in Berlin (from Vermont)
Image 33Vermont in 1827. The county boundaries have since changed. (from Vermont)
Image 34Köppen climate types of Vermont, using 1991–2020 climate normals. (from Vermont)
Image 35The West Dummerston Bridge, the longest covered bridge in Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 36Lake Champlain (from Vermont)
Image 37The Old Constitution House at Windsor, where the Constitution of Vermont was adopted on July 8, 1777 (from Vermont)
Image 38The West Dummerston Bridge, the longest covered bridge in Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 39The University of Vermont
Old Mill, the oldest building of the university (from Vermont)
Image 40Watercolor of an Abenaki couple, 1700s (from Vermont)
Image 41Lake Champlain (from Vermont)
Image 42Stowe Resort Village (from Vermont)
Image 43The gold leaf dome of the neoclassical Vermont State House (Capitol) in Montpelier (from Vermont)
Image 44The hermit thrush, the state bird of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 45Fall foliage at Lake Willoughby (from Vermont)
Image 46Watercolor of an Abenaki couple, 1700s (from Vermont)
Image 47Fall foliage at Lake Willoughby (from Vermont)
Image 48The 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 49Population density of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 50The gold leaf dome of the neoclassical Vermont State House (Capitol) in Montpelier (from Vermont)
Image 51The Ethan Allen Express alongside the Island Line Trail in Burlington (from Vermont)
Image 52Vermont 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 53Silurian and Devonian stratigraphy of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 54Vermont 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 55The Vermont Supreme Court's building in Montpelier (from Vermont)
Image 56Autumn in Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 571791 Act of Congress admitting Vermont into the Union (from Vermont)
Image 58Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and Representative Peter Welch greet supporters in 2017.
Image 59Edward F. Knapp State Airport in Berlin (from Vermont)
Image 60The Vermont Supreme Court's building in Montpelier (from Vermont)
Image 61Fall foliage seen from Hogback Mountain, Wilmington (from Vermont)
Image 62Mount Mansfield (from Vermont)
Image 63Map of Vermont showing cities, roads, and rivers (from Vermont)
Image 64MVRTD's "The Bus" in Rutland (from Vermont)
Image 65Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and Representative Peter Welch greet supporters in 2017.
Image 66The Old Constitution House at Windsor, where the Constitution of Vermont was adopted on July 8, 1777 (from Vermont)
Image 67Western face of Camel's Hump Mountain (elevation 4,079 feet (1,243 m)). (from Vermont)
Image 68Vermont Route 17 in Addison with Snake Mountain at right (from Vermont)

Did you know -

... 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?
... that John Zampieri was the youngest member of the Vermont House of Representatives after the 1966 election?
... that KQLO, the antecedent of today's KIHM, was established after its founder drove from Nevada to Vermont and found no Catholic radio stations on the trip?
... that Burlington Union Station is home to winged monkeys?
... that before John McClaughry was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives, he traveled about 5,000 miles (8,000 km) in boxcars as a hobo?
... that Molly Gray, the new lieutenant governor of Vermont, is a former competitive skier and the daughter of an Olympic skier?

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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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