A report on Vermont and Burlington, Vermont

The Old Constitution House at Windsor, where the Constitution of Vermont was adopted on July 8, 1777
The Carnegie Building of the Fletcher Free Library in 2013
A circa 1775 flag used by the Green Mountain Boys
The gold leaf dome of the neoclassical Vermont State House (Capitol) in Montpelier
Battery Park, which overlooks the Burlington Waterfront and Lake Champlain
1791 Act of Congress admitting Vermont into the Union
ECHO, Leahy Center for Lake Champlain
Vermont in 1827. The county boundaries have since changed.
Burlington's Union Station was built in 1916 by the Central Vermont Railway and the Rutland Railroad. It now serves only tourist rail operations.
Map of Vermont showing cities, roads, and rivers
One of the four buildings in the Edmunds School complex
Population density of Vermont
University of Vermont – Old Mill building
Mount Mansfield
Western face of Camel's Hump Mountain (elevation 4079 ft).
Fall foliage at Lake Willoughby
Köppen climate types of Vermont, using 1991–2020 climate normals.
Silurian and Devonian stratigraphy of Vermont
The hermit thrush, the state bird of Vermont
A proportional representation of Vermont exports, 2020
Fall foliage seen from Hogback Mountain, Wilmington
Lake Champlain
Autumn in Vermont
Stowe Resort Village
The Lyndon Institute, a high school in Lyndon, Vermont
The University of Vermont Old Mill, the oldest building of the university
Vermont welcome sign in Addison on Route 17 just over the New York border over the Champlain Bridge
Amtrak station in White River Junction
The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, in Vernon
The Vermont Supreme Court's building in Montpelier
Vermont towns hold a March town meeting for voters to approve the town's budget and decide other matters. Marlboro voters meet in this building.
Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and Representative Peter Welch greet supporters in 2017.
Vermontasaurus sculpture in Post Mills, in 2010

Burlington is the most populous city in Vermont and the seat of Chittenden County.

- Burlington, Vermont

The most-populous city, Burlington, is the least-populous city to be the most-populous city in a state.

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New Hampshire Exit 15 (Montcalm), looking south

Interstate 89

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Interstate Highway in the New England region of the United States traveling from Bow, New Hampshire, to the Canadian border between Highgate Springs, Vermont, and Saint-Armand, Quebec.

Interstate Highway in the New England region of the United States traveling from Bow, New Hampshire, to the Canadian border between Highgate Springs, Vermont, and Saint-Armand, Quebec.

New Hampshire Exit 15 (Montcalm), looking south
Interstate 89 northbound in Vermont, approaching Exit 2 in Sharon
I-89 Exit 17 in Colchester (June 5, 2015), Chittenden County
The Whale Tails along I-89 northbound in South Burlington, just west of Exit 12

The largest cities directly served by I-89 are Concord, the state capital of New Hampshire, Montpelier, the state capital of Vermont, and Burlington, Vermont.

Lake Champlain-River Richelieu watershed

Lake Champlain

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Lake Champlain-River Richelieu watershed
Sentinel-2 satellite photo
Lake Champlain in Burlington Harbor during sunset on May 27, 2012
Brooklyn Museum – Green Mountains, Lake Champlain – Winckworth Allan Gay – overall
Map of Lac Champlain, from Fort de Chambly up to Fort St-Fréderic in Nouvelle France. Cadastral map showing concessions and seigneuries on the coasts of the lake according to 1739 surveying.
Charlotte Ferry, Lake Champlain
The Champlain Valley as seen from Camel's Hump
Lake Champlain, Charlotte, Vermont
Dutton House, Shelburne Museum
Stagecoach Inn, Shelburne Museum
Sawmill, Shelburne Museum
A 1902 photograph of Fort Henry at Lake Champlain
The Champlain Bridge between New York and Vermont, demolished in December 2009
The LCTC ferry slip at Grand Isle, Vermont
The Swanton-Alburgh trestle spans Lake Champlain between the two Vermont towns: a distance of about 0.8 mi.
At sunset, looking west from Grand Isle to Plattsburgh and Crab Island
The lighthouse in Lake Champlain at dusk, as seen from Burlington, VT
USCG, Burlington, Vermont – main installation
Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife boat docked near ECHO Aquarium

Lake Champlain (Lac Champlain; Abenaki: Pitawbagw ["At Lake Champlain" (loc.):Pitawbagok]; ) is a natural freshwater lake in North America mainly within the borders of the United States (in the states of Vermont and New York) but also across the Canada–U.S. border into the Canadian province of Quebec.

The cities of Plattsburgh, New York and Burlington, Vermont are on the lake's western and eastern shores, respectively, and the Town of Ticonderoga, New York is in the region's southern part.

Western face of Mount Mansfield from Underhill, Vermont

Chittenden County, Vermont

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Western face of Mount Mansfield from Underhill, Vermont
Burton Snowboards is headquartered in Burlington.
The Church Street Marketplace in downtown Burlington
The University of Vermont is Vermont's public flagship research university and is situated in Burlington.
Interstate 89 Exit 17 in Colchester (June 5, 2015)

Chittenden County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Vermont.

The county seat is Vermont's most populous municipality, the city of Burlington.

New England

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Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England
Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616.
A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre
An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
The New England Ensign, one of several flags historically associated with New England. This flag was reportedly used by colonial merchant ships sailing out of New England ports, 1686 – c. 1737.
New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy
The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912.
Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c.1910–1913
Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies.
A political and geographical map of New England shows the coastal plains in the southeast, and hills, mountains and valleys in the west and the north.
A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts
Köppen climate types in New England
The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States.
Largest self-reported ancestry groups in New England. Americans of Irish descent form a plurality in most of Massachusetts, while Americans of English descent form a plurality in much of the central parts of Vermont and New Hampshire as well as nearly all of Maine.
World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic group in New England.
Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves.
The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England.
The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building.
A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont
Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire
A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont
Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC)
Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary.
New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University.
Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century
Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity.
A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont
Boston's Symphony Hall is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—the second-oldest of the Big Five American symphony orchestras.
New England regionalist poet Robert Frost
Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
A Hartford Line Train at Hartford Union Station
The MBTA Commuter Rail serves eastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, radiating from downtown Boston, with planned service to New Hampshire. The CTrail system operates the Shore Line East and Hartford Line, covering coastal Connecticut, Hartford, and Springfield, Massachusetts.
1. Boston, Massachusetts
2. Worcester, Massachusetts
3. Providence, Rhode Island
4. Springfield, Massachusetts
5. Bridgeport, Connecticut
6. Stamford, Connecticut
7. New Haven, Connecticut
8. Hartford, Connecticut
9. Cambridge, Massachusetts
10. Manchester, New Hampshire
Harvard vs. Yale football game in 2003
Fenway Park
Bill Russell and Red Auerbach of the Boston Celtics
The New England Patriots are the most popular professional sports team in New England.
The Middlebury College rowing team in the 2007 Head of the Charles Regatta
Köppen climate types in New England

New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

As of December 2016, the metropolitan statistical area (MSA) with the lowest unemployment rate, 2.1%, was Burlington-South Burlington, Vermont; the MSA with the highest rate, 4.9%, was Waterbury, Connecticut.

The North Branch of the Winooski River at Montpelier

Winooski River

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The North Branch of the Winooski River at Montpelier
Falls on the Winooski River between the cities of Winooski (foreground) and Burlington (far shore)
Northwesterly view of the Winooski River Bicycle and Pedestrian Bridge crossing from Burlington to Colchester along the Island Line Trail at the mouth of the Winooski River.

The Winooski River (formerly the Onion River) is a tributary of Lake Champlain, approximately 90 mi long, in the northern half of Vermont.

The river drains an area of the northern Green Mountains between Vermont's capital of Montpelier and its largest city, Burlington.

Montpelier, Vermont

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The first Vermont State House, built in 1808, was designed by Sylvanus Baldwin.
Montpelier as illustrated in 1884
State Street, Montpelier Historic District, 2006
Winooski River at Montpelier
Downtown shops
Building of the State street built on the North Branch River (tributary of Winooski River).
Hubbard Park Observation Tower, built 1915–1930
Montpelier City Hall
Main Street in downtown Montpelier

Montpelier is the capital city of the U.S. state of Vermont and the seat of Washington County.

GMTA and its sister bus company in Burlington, the Chittenden County Transportation Authority (CCTA), operate a series of LINK commuter buses with stops in Montpelier, Burlington, Richmond, and Waterbury.

Barre (city), Vermont

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City Hall and park in c. 1910
Downtown Barre
The Barre Partnership, Barre's official community organization, is located in the historic Wheelock Law Office
The Barre World War 1 Memorial, "Youth Triumphant", by sculptor C. Paul Jennewein

Barre is the most populous city in Washington County, Vermont, United States.

A Premier Basketball League (PBL) team, the Vermont Frost Heaves, played its games in Barre at the Barre Auditorium and at the Memorial Auditorium in Burlington, Vermont.

Colchester, Vermont

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The Island Line Trail travels from Colchester across Lake Champlain to Grand Isle County; it is a former railroad line.
Saint Michael's College

Colchester is a town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States.

Colchester borders Burlington, Vermont's most populous municipality.

University of Vermont

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Old Mill, the oldest building of the university
The Billings Memorial Library was built in 1883 and was the university's library until 1961 when the larger Guy W. Bailey library was built. Since then, it has served miscellaneous purposes.
Named for U.S. Senator Justin Smith Morrill, Morrill Hall was constructed in 1906–07 to serve as the home of the UVM Agriculture Department and the Agricultural Experiment Station.
UVM research vessel docked near ECHO Aquarium, in Burlington harbor along Lake Champlain.
Williams Hall (formerly Williams Science Hall) at the University of Vermont today houses the departments of Fine Arts and Anthropology.
The George D. Aiken Center houses the Rubenstein School of Environment & Natural Resources
The Gutterson Fieldhouse, built in 1963, houses UVM's hockey rink.
Davis Center, the student resource center of the university completed in the fall of 2007
Ira Allen Chapel
John Dewey
Jody Williams
Madeleine Kunin
Phil Scott
Frederick H. Billings
William A. Wheeler
Grace Coolidge
Brian Halligan
Henry Jarvis Raymond
Peter Katis
Annie Proulx
Ben Affleck
Dierks Bentley
Duane Graveline
Jessica Seinfeld

The University of Vermont (UVM), officially the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a public land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont.

The largest medical library in Vermont, the Charles A. Dana Library is the Vermont Resource Library of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine and serves the information needs of the Academic Health Center at the University of Vermont.

UVM Medical Center Main Campus

University of Vermont Medical Center

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Five-campus academic medical facility under the corporate umbrella of The University of Vermont Health Network corporate that is anchored by a 562-bed hospital.

Five-campus academic medical facility under the corporate umbrella of The University of Vermont Health Network corporate that is anchored by a 562-bed hospital.

UVM Medical Center Main Campus
UVM Medical Center Main Campus

UVM is located in Burlington, Vermont,

Founded in Burlington in 1879, Mary Fletcher Hospital was the first hospital in Vermont. It was renamed Medical Center Hospital of Vermont in 1967 when it merged with Bishop DeGoesbriand Hospital.