A report on Vermont, New England and Lake Champlain

Lake Champlain-River Richelieu watershed

Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England

The Old Constitution House at Windsor, where the Constitution of Vermont was adopted on July 8, 1777

Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616.

Lake Champlain in Burlington Harbor during sunset on May 27, 2012

A circa 1775 flag used by the Green Mountain Boys

A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre

Brooklyn Museum – Green Mountains, Lake Champlain – Winckworth Allan Gay – overall

The gold leaf dome of the neoclassical Vermont State House (Capitol) in Montpelier

An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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.

1791 Act of Congress admitting Vermont into the Union

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.

Vermont in 1827. The county boundaries have since changed.

New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy

The Champlain Valley as seen from Camel's Hump

Map of Vermont showing cities, roads, and rivers

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

Western face of Camel's Hump Mountain (elevation 4079 ft).

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 1902 photograph of Fort Henry at Lake Champlain

Köppen climate types of Vermont, using 1991–2020 climate normals.

A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts

The Champlain Bridge between New York and Vermont, demolished in December 2009

Silurian and Devonian stratigraphy of Vermont

The LCTC ferry slip at Grand Isle, Vermont

The hermit thrush, the state bird of Vermont

The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains.

The Swanton-Alburgh trestle spans Lake Champlain between the two Vermont towns: a distance of about 0.8 mi.

A proportional representation of Vermont exports, 2020

At sunset, looking west from Grand Isle to Plattsburgh and Crab Island

Fall foliage seen from Hogback Mountain, Wilmington

Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States.

The lighthouse in Lake Champlain at dusk, as seen from Burlington, VT

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.

USCG, Burlington, Vermont – main installation

World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic group in New England.

Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife boat docked near ECHO Aquarium

Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves.

The Lyndon Institute, a high school in Lyndon, Vermont

The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England.

The University of Vermont
Old Mill, the oldest building of the university

The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building.

Vermont welcome sign in Addison on Route 17 just over the New York border over the Champlain Bridge

Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire

The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, in Vernon

A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont

The Vermont Supreme Court's building in Montpelier

Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC)

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.

Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary.

Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and Representative Peter Welch greet supporters in 2017.

New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University.

Vermontasaurus sculpture in Post Mills, in 2010

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

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.

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

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the United States.

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

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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.

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The geography of the state is marked by the Green Mountains, which run north–south up the middle of the state, separating Lake Champlain and other valley terrain on the west from the Connecticut River valley that defines much of its eastern border.

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However, had the British controlled the lake, they could have divided the colonies of New England and further depleted the Continental Army.

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Lake Champlain, which forms part of the border between Vermont and New York, is the largest lake in the region, followed by Moosehead Lake in Maine and Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire.

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Abenaki

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Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of Canada and the United States.

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Abenaki teepee with birch bark covering.

Flag of Missisquoi Abenaki Tribe, a state-recognized tribe in Vermont

Statue of Keewakwa Abenaki Keenahbeh in Opechee Park in Laconia, New Hampshire (standing at 36 ft.)

The Eastern Abenaki language was predominantly spoken in Maine, while the Western Abenaki language was spoken in Quebec, Vermont, and New Hampshire.

Wôbanakiak is derived from wôban ("dawn" or "east") and aki ("land") (compare Proto-Algonquian *wa·pan and *axkyi) — the aboriginal name of the area broadly corresponding to New England and the Maritimes.

Missiquoi (also Masipskwoik, Mazipskikskoik, Missique, Misiskuoi, Missisco, Missiassik – "People of the Flint"), also known as the Sokoki. They lived in the Missisquoi Valley, from Lake Champlain to the headwaters. Principal village around Swanton, Vermont.

New York (state)

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State in the Northeastern United States.

New York was dominated by Iroquoian (purple) and Algonquian (pink) tribes.

New Amsterdam, present-day Lower Manhattan, 1660

New York and neighboring provinces, by Claude Joseph Sauthier, 1777

British general John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga in 1777

1800 map of New York from Low's Encyclopaedia

The Erie Canal at Lockport, New York, in 1839

Flight 175 hitting the South Tower on September11, 2001

Flooding on AvenueC in Lower Manhattan caused by Hurricane Sandy

New York is bordered by six U.S. states, two Great Lakes, and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

Enveloped by the Atlantic Ocean and Long Island Sound, New York City and Long Island alone are home to about eleven million residents conjointly.

Lake-effect snow is a major contributor to heavy snowfall totals in western New York, including the Tug Hill region.

Two major state parks (in green) are the Adirondack Park (north) and the Catskill Park (south).

The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor is a symbol of the United States and its ideals.

The African Burial Ground National Monument in Lower Manhattan

New York population distribution map. New York's population is primarily concentrated in the Greater New York area, including New York City and Long Island.

The Stonewall Inn in the gay village of Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan, site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots, the cradle of the modern LGBT rights movement

The main laboratory building of the IBM Watson Research Center is located in Yorktown Heights, New York.

Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, hub of the Broadway theater district, a media center, and one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections

CMA CGM Theodore Roosevelt, the largest container ship to enter the Port of New York and New Jersey as of September7, 2017

Harris Hall of the City College of New York, a public college of the City University of New York

South campus of the University at Buffalo, the flagship of the State University of New York

The New York City Subway is one of the world's busiest, serving more than five million passengers per average weekday.

John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States

Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer, New York's U.S. Senators

Kathy Hochul (D), the 57th Governor of New York

The state of New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east; it has a maritime border with Rhode Island, east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the north and Ontario to the northwest.

Many of the Wampanoag and Mohican peoples were caught up in King Philip's War, a joint effort of many New England tribes to push Europeans off their land.

The state's borders include a water boundary in (clockwise from the west) two Great Lakes (Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, which are connected by the Niagara River); the provinces of Ontario and Quebec in Canada, with New York and Ontario sharing the Thousand Islands archipelago within the Saint Lawrence River, while most of its border with Quebec is on land; it shares Lake Champlain with the New England state of Vermont; the New England state of Massachusetts has mostly a land border; New York extends into Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, sharing a water border with Rhode Island, while Connecticut has land and sea borders.

Maine

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Maine State House, designed by Charles Bulfinch, built 1829–1832

Misty Morning, Coast of MaineArthur Parton (1842–1914). Between 1865 and 1870, Brooklyn Museum.

Köppen climate types of Maine, using 1991-2020 climate normals.

Maine blueberries. The U.S.'s only commercial producers of wild blueberries are located in Maine.

The Penobscot Narrows Bridge, carrying U.S. Route 1 and Maine State Route 3 over the Penobscot River

A southbound Downeaster passenger train at Ocean Park, Maine, as viewed from the cab of a northbound train

Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election

The University of Maine is the state's only research university.

Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin (pictured) Colleges form the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium

College hockey being played at the Cross Insurance Center

Two moose in the Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge. The moose is Maine's state mammal.

Party registration by county: (November 2020)

Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, bordered by New Hampshire to the west; the Gulf of Maine to the southeast; and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and northwest, respectively.

Maine's Moosehead Lake is the largest lake wholly in New England, since Lake Champlain is located between Vermont, New York and Québec.

Burlington, Vermont

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The Carnegie Building of the Fletcher Free Library in 2013

Battery Park, which overlooks the Burlington Waterfront and Lake Champlain

Burlington's Union Station was built in 1916 by the Central Vermont Railway and the Rutland Railroad. It now serves only tourist rail operations.

One of the four buildings in the Edmunds School complex

University of Vermont – Old Mill building

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

The War of 1812 was unpopular in Vermont and the rest of New England, which had numerous trading ties with Canada.

The town's position on Lake Champlain helped it develop into a port of entry and center for trade, particularly after completion of the Champlain Canal in 1823, the Erie Canal in 1825, and the Chambly Canal in 1843.