VERMONT

Green Mountain State

Origin of state's name: Based on "verts monts," French for green mountains

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The picture on a deep blue field is a scene painting. You see a tall pine tree, a cow and sheves of wheat. The Green Mountains are in the distance. Pine boughs extend around a shield. The name "Vermont" and the state motto "Freedom and Unity" are displayed on a crimson banner. At the the top of the shield is a stag's head.

Entered Union: March 4, 1791; 14th State
Capital: Montpelier
Motto: Freedom and unity
Flower: Red clover
Bird: Hermit thrush
Tree: Sugar maple
Song: Hail, Vermont

A LITTLE HISTORY
Champlain explored the lake that bears his name in 1609. The first American settlement was at Ft. Dummer in 1724, near Brattleboro. Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys captured Ft. Ticonderoga (NY) in 1775; John Stark defeated part of Burgoyne's forces near Bennington in 1777. Thomas MacDonough defeated a British fleet on Champlain off Plattsburgh (NY) in 1814.

FACTS AND TRIVIA ABOUT VERMONT
Vermont is the only New England state that doesn't border the Atlantic.

With a population of fewer than nine thousand people, Montpelier, Vermont is the smallest state capital in the U.S.

Vermont was the first state after the original 13 colonies to join the United States.

In ratio of cows to people, Vermont has the greatest number of dairy cows in the country.

Vermont makes more maple syrup, marble and monument granite than any other state.

Vermont's largest employer isn't Ben and Jerry's, but IBM.

The area which is today Vermont was first explored by Frenchman Samuel de Champlain in 1609, when he claimed it for his home country.

First Constitution to outlaw slavery was Vermont's in 1777.

First Constitution to abolish the requirement that voters must be property owners was Vermont's in 1777.

First beneficiary of monthly Social Security payments was Ida M. Fuller of Ludlow (Vermont) who received check #00-000-001 for $22.54, January 31, 1940.

First U.S. Patent, signed by George Washington, was issued in 1790 to Samuel Hopkins of Pittsford for making potash out of wood ashes.

First postage stamp used in America was made in Brattleboro in 1846.

First Revolutionary soldier to shed British blood at the Battle of Lexington, April 18, 1775 was Solomon Brown in New Haven, who thus fired the first effective shot in the Revolutionary War.

First Stars and stripes flag to lead American armed forces on land was the Bennington Flag used at the Battle of Bennington on August 16, 1777.

First State to offer troops in the Civil War was Vermont.

First person to cross the entire United States by automobile was Dr. H. Nelson Jackson, a Burlington physician, who started out from Burlington in 1902.

Steel carpenter's square was invented by Silas Hawes of Shaftsbury in 1814.

Sandpaper was invented by Isaac Fisher at Springfield in 1834.

Laughing gas was discovered by Gardner Colton of Georgia. Horace Wells of White River Junction was the first person to use laughing gas as an anesthetic for pulling teeth in 1844.

First toy carts, violin cases and guitar cases sold in America were invented by Joel A.H. Ellis of Springfield in the mid 1800's. Ellis also invented doll carriages and jointed dolls.

First chairlift was used on Mt. Mansfield in 1940.

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