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Vermont (/vərˈmɒnt/ ^ⓘ vər-MONT) is a landlocked state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders 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 about 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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A Morgan horse

The Morgan horse is one of the earliest horse breeds developed in the United States. Tracing back to the foundation sire Figure, later named Justin Morgan after his best-known owner, as well as mares of the now-extinct Narragansett Pacer breed, Morgans served many roles in 19th-century American history, being used as coach horses and for harness racing, as general riding animals, and as cavalry horses during the American Civil War on both sides of the conflict. Morgans have influenced other major American breeds, including the American Quarter Horse, the American Saddlebred, the Tennessee Walking Horse, and the Standardbred.

During the 19th and 20th centuries, they were exported to other countries, including England, where a Morgan stallion influenced the breeding of the Hackney horse. In 1907, the US Department of Agriculture established the US Morgan Horse Farm near Middlebury, Vermont for the purpose of perpetuating and improving the Morgan breed; the farm was later transferred to the University of Vermont. The first breed registry was established in 1909, and since then many organizations in the US, Europe and Oceania have developed. (Full article...)

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Newport is the only city in, and the shire town of, Orleans County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 4,455. The city contains the second-largest population of any municipality in the county (only neighboring Derby is larger), and has the smallest geographic area. It is the second-smallest city by population in Vermont. Newport is also the name of neighboring Newport Town.

Newport was founded by European Americans as a settlement in 1793 and was first called Pickerel Point. It was the place where Rogers' Rangers retreated in 1759 after a French and Indian War incursion into Canada. In the 19th century, the village was stimulated by construction of the railroad in 1863, during the American Civil War. The lumbering firm Prouty & Miller operated here from 1865. Long after the post-war Reconstruction era, the village was the site for a Reunion Society of Vermont Officers in 1891. Newport has two public schools, one private school, and a branch of the Community College of Vermont. As of the 2010 census, there were 4,589 people. (Full article...)

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Image 1The Lyndon Institute, a high school in Lyndon, Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 2The Old Constitution House at Windsor, where the Constitution of Vermont was adopted on July 8, 1777 (from Vermont)
Image 3Stowe Resort Village (from Vermont)
Image 41791 Act of Congress admitting Vermont into the Union (from Vermont)
Image 5The flag of the Green Mountain Boys (from History of Vermont)
Image 6The Vermont Supreme Court's building in Montpelier (from Vermont)
Image 7MVRTD's "The Bus" in Rutland (from Vermont)
Image 8Silurian and Devonian stratigraphy of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 9Stowe Resort Village (from Vermont)
Image 10Vermont 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 11Vermont Route 17 in Addison with Snake Mountain at right (from Vermont)
Image 12Köppen climate types of Vermont, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from Vermont)
Image 13Vellum 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 14Population density of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 15The Ethan Allen Express alongside the Island Line Trail in Burlington (from Vermont)
Image 16The former Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, in Vernon (from Vermont)
Image 17The 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 18The Ethan Allen Express alongside the Island Line Trail in Burlington (from Vermont)
Image 19Mount 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 20MVRTD's "The Bus" in Rutland (from Vermont)
Image 211791 Act of Congress admitting Vermont into the Union (from Vermont)
Image 22Vermont in 1827. The county boundaries have since changed. (from Vermont)
Image 23Autumn in Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 24Western face of Camel's Hump Mountain (elevation 4,079 feet (1,243 m)) (from Vermont)
Image 25The gold leaf dome of the neoclassical Vermont State House (Capitol) in Montpelier (from Vermont)
Image 26Vermontasaurus sculpture in Post Mills, in 2010 (from Vermont)
Image 27Mount Mansfield (from Vermont)
Image 28Map of Vermont showing cities, roads, and rivers (from Vermont)
Image 29The Cumberland ice-breaking ferry headed toward Grand Isle in winter (from Vermont)
Image 30Watercolor of Abenaki couple, 1700s (from Vermont)
Image 31Fall foliage seen from Hogback Mountain, Wilmington (from Vermont)
Image 32Watercolor of Abenaki couple, 1700s (from Vermont)
Image 33Silurian and Devonian stratigraphy of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 34Lake Champlain (from Vermont)
Image 35Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and Representative Peter Welch greet supporters in 2017.
Image 36Edward F. Knapp State Airport in Berlin (from Vermont)
Image 37Edward F. Knapp State Airport in Berlin (from Vermont)
Image 38Vermont in 1827. The county boundaries have since changed. (from Vermont)
Image 39Lake Champlain (from Vermont)
Image 40The University of Vermont's Old Mill, the oldest building on campus (from Vermont)
Image 41The Lyndon Institute, a high school in Lyndon, Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 42Mount Mansfield (from Vermont)
Image 43Fall foliage at Lake Willoughby (from Vermont)
Image 44The hermit thrush, the state bird of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 45Köppen climate types of Vermont, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from Vermont)
Image 46Fall foliage seen from Hogback Mountain, Wilmington (from Vermont)
Image 47The West Dummerston Bridge, the longest covered bridge in Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 48Vermontasaurus sculpture in Post Mills, in 2010 (from Vermont)
Image 49The former Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, in Vernon (from Vermont)
Image 50A c.1775 flag used by the Green Mountain Boys (from Vermont)
Image 51The Vermont Supreme Court's building in Montpelier (from Vermont)
Image 52Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and Representative Peter Welch greet supporters in 2017.
Image 53Western face of Camel's Hump Mountain (elevation 4,079 feet (1,243 m)) (from Vermont)
Image 54Autumn in Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 55The Cumberland ice-breaking ferry headed toward Grand Isle in winter (from Vermont)
Image 56Vermont Route 17 in Addison with Snake Mountain at right (from Vermont)
Image 57The gold leaf dome of the neoclassical Vermont State House (Capitol) in Montpelier (from Vermont)
Image 58The University of Vermont's Old Mill, the oldest building on campus (from Vermont)
Image 59The hermit thrush, the state bird of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 60Population density of Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 61Fall foliage at Lake Willoughby (from Vermont)
Image 62The Old Constitution House at Windsor, where the Constitution of Vermont was adopted on July 8, 1777 (from Vermont)
Image 63Vermont 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 64A c.1775 flag used by the Green Mountain Boys (from Vermont)
Image 65The West Dummerston Bridge, the longest covered bridge in Vermont (from Vermont)
Image 66Map of Vermont showing cities, roads, and rivers (from Vermont)

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... 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 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 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 Amtrak called the Vermont Rail System the worst host railroad in the country in 2010 due to delays on the Ethan Allen Express?
... 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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