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William Samuel Johnson (1727-1819), American jurist, statesman and educator. Both the college and the town are named for him. Painted by Gilbert Stuart.. The town of Johnson, and a part of neighboring Cambridge, Vermont together once made up the King's College Tract, a land grant chartered by King George III in 1774 for the eventual expansion of King's College in New York, today's Columbia ...
Coordinates: 44°44′48.3″N 72°36′11.1″W. The Babcock Nature Preserve is located in Eden, Vermont. The preserve comprises a 1,000-acre (1.4 km 2) tract of boreal forest land. The tract was donated to Vermont State Colleges by Robert and Anne Hanchett Babcock. Mr. Babcock was a Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, serving under Governor ...
Green Mountain National Forest is a national forest located in Vermont, a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest typical of the New England/Acadian forests ecoregion. The forest supports a variety of wildlife, including beaver, moose, coyote, black bear, white-tailed deer, wild turkey, and ruffed grouse. The forest, being situated in Vermont's ...
Coordinates: 44°25′24″N 72°00′35″W. The Moose River just before it joins with the Passumpsic in St. Johnsbury. The Moose River is a small river in the U.S. state of Vermont. It flows into the Passumpsic River at St. Johnsbury, and is part of the Connecticut River basin. The river is measured by a flow gauge at Victory.
Castleton University was chartered as a grammar school in 1787, making it the oldest institution dissolved to create Vermont State University. [5] Johnson Academy was founded in 1828, later becoming Johnson State College; Vermont Technical College was founded in 1806 as Orange County Grammar School; Lyndon State College was founded in 1911 as a normal school.
The Vermont State Colleges System (VSCS) is the system of public colleges in the U.S. state of Vermont. It was created by act of the Vermont General Assembly in 1961. There are presently two entities in the VSCS consortium, the Community College of Vermont and the Vermont State University. Together, more than 11,000 students are enrolled in the ...
Camel's Hump State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Vermont. [1] The park straddles the northern Green Mountains in an area bounded by Vermont Route 17 on the south and the Winooski River on the north. As of 2017, the park covered a total of 21,224 acres (8,589 ha), [2] making it the largest state park in Vermont.
Rotating Abenaki museum that is displayed throughout the state, operated by the Ndakinna Cultural Center [1][2] Adam's Grist Mill Museum. Bellows Falls. Windham. Local history. Operated by the Bellows Falls Historical Society [3] American Museum of Fly Fishing. Manchester. Bennington.