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Native Americans inhabited and hunted in Vermont. From 7000 to 1000 BC was the Archaic Period.During that era, Native Americans migrated year-round. From 1000 BC to 1600 AD was the Woodland Period, when villages and trade networks were established, and ceramic and bow and arrow technology were developed.
Ethan Allen (January 21, 1738 [O.S. January 10, 1737] [a] – February 12, 1789) was an American farmer, writer, military officer and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of Vermont and for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolutionary War, and was also the brother of Ira Allen and the father of Fanny Allen.
The Vermont Republic officially known at the time as the State of Vermont, was an independent state in New England that existed from January 15, 1777, to March 4, 1791. [1] The state was founded in January 1777, when delegates from 28 towns met and declared independence from the jurisdictions and land claims of the British colonies of Quebec ...
Vermont's history of independent political thought has led to movements for the establishment of the Second Vermont Republic and other plans advocating secession. Vermont is the only state in the United States that requires voters to be sworn in, having established the voter's oath or affirmation in 1777. [286]
Ira Allen – militia leader, and the founder of the University of Vermont (Ethan Allen's brother) [10] Remember Baker – militia member (captain) (Ethan Allen's cousin) [ 11 ] John Fassett Jr. – Vermont Supreme Court Justice, 1778–1786, diarist who chronicled the Green Mountain Boys’ 1775 expedition to Canada .
The founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aka the Mormon Church) was born in Sharon in 1805. He gradually made his way west, published the Book of Mormon in central New York ...
A turtle technician accidently finds plant long thought to be extinct in Vermont. Glynn said the population was found earlier this month by Molly Parren, a turtle technician at Vermont Fish ...
The first Vermont State House, built in 1808, was designed by Sylvanus Baldwin. Montpelier as illustrated in 1884 State Street, Montpelier Historic District, 2006. The meadows and flats of the Winooski River were well known among natives for their corn-raising capacities. [18]