Vermont was its own republic before it was a state. From 1777 to 1791 the Vermont Republic ran its own currency, its own postal service, and its own constitution — the first in North America to abolish slavery and grant all adult men the vote regardless of property. Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys had already taken Fort Ticonderoga from the British in May 1775, hauling its cannon over the Berkshires to Boston. Vermont entered the Union in 1791 as the fourteenth state. Town meeting day is still in March.
Vermont’s 14 counties run the length of the Green Mountains from the Massachusetts border to the Canadian line, flanked by Lake Champlain to the west and the Connecticut River to the east.
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Vermont was its own republic before it was a state. From 1777 to 1791, the Vermont Republic operated as an independent nation — minting coins, running a postal service, and conducting foreign affairs — after both New York and New Hampshire rejected its claim to exist. Its constitution, drafted at Windsor in 1777, was the first in the Americas to abolish adult slavery and the first to grant universal male suffrage regardless of property ownership.
Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys had already made Vermont famous before the republic was declared. Their capture of Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775 — Allen reportedly demanding the surrender “in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress” — was one of the first American offensive actions of the Revolutionary War, and the cannons seized there were hauled to Boston and used to force the British evacuation.
Vermont entered the Union in 1791 as the 14th state, the first added after the original thirteen. It arrived with its own distinct character: small farms carved from rocky hillsides, a Calvinist suspicion of excess, and a town-meeting democracy so direct that major policy decisions were settled in wooden halls by whoever showed up on a Tuesday night. That democratic tradition persists across Vermont’s 246 towns to this day.
The 19th century brought marble quarries, granite quarries, dairy farms, and the Civil War. Vermont sent a higher proportion of its men to fight for the Union than almost any other state; over 34,000 served, and the casualty rate was staggering. The Vermont Brigade held the line at the Battle of the Wilderness and suffered some of the worst losses of the war. After the war, dairy became the backbone of the economy, and Vermont’s landscape became defined by black-and-white Holsteins on green hillsides.
Today Vermont occupies a paradox: the second least populated state in America, yet one of the most visited per capita. Its fall foliage draws millions. Its ski resorts — Stowe, Killington, Mad River Glen — are pilgrimage sites. Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and the Cabot creamery built national brands from Vermont milk. The state votes its conscience, debates loudly at town meeting, and insists on being exactly what it is. The Green Mountains don’t apologize for their size.
Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British, seizing cannons that help force the British evacuation of Boston.
Vermont declares itself an independent republic with the first constitution in the Americas to ban adult slavery.
Vermont joins the Union as the 14th state, the first added after the original thirteen colonies.
Montpelier becomes Vermont’s permanent capital — it will remain the smallest state capital in the U.S. by population.
Confederate raiders strike St. Albans from Canada, robbing three banks in the northernmost land action of the Civil War.
Chester Arthur of Fairfield becomes the 21st President after Garfield’s assassination — Vermont’s only president.
The Great Vermont Flood kills 84 people and destroys hundreds of bridges, isolating communities across the state.
Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, founded in a Burlington gas station in 1978, begins national distribution, becoming Vermont’s most famous export.
Vermont becomes the first state to legally recognize civil unions for same-sex couples, a landmark in the marriage equality movement.
Irene devastates Vermont’s river towns, washing out roads and bridges and isolating dozens of communities for weeks.
Real Vermont people who have placed their names — and their stories — into the hex grid. Each square mile, a chapter.
In September of 1987, my parents put me and my younger brother on a plane in Manila with two suitcases between us and exactly eight hundred....
View StoryMy great-grandmother Mary was born on a farm outside Burlington in 1903. Her mother was Cherokee — full-blood, born on the Qualla Boundary i...
View StoryFor Pop. Sweetest dad in Vermont. Gone five years now and I still hear his laugh in the kitchen every Sunday morning.
View StoryMy grandmother used to make pierogi every Christmas Eve in her kitchen in Burlington. She would sit at the round table, four hours straight,...
View StoryMy family has called Vermont home for five generations. My great-great-grandfather Anders arrived from Sweden in 1887 with seventeen dollars...
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My great-grandfather built houses in Burlington for forty-one years. His hands made this town. This hex is for those hands.
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Fourteen counties of granite ridges, dairy hollows, and maple woods. A republic before a state, the first constitution to ban slavery, and town meeting democracy still practiced every March. Vermont’s small footprint carries an outsized argument about how a republic ought to govern itself. Inscribe your name.
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