Only two municipalities in the state are taken from American Indian words:

Jamaica (from the Natick for "beaver") and Winooski (Abnaki for "wild onion place").

Maple Syrup!

Did You Know?

An old Vermont Law states that it is illegal to whistle under water? I am still trying to figure out how.

Old Laws

Painting a landscape during times of war, is illegal in Vermont. You did what?

Prior to European settlement, beavers could be found in every water body in Vermont.

By the mid-19th century the animal had been trapped nearly out of existence.

Reintroduction efforts in the early 1900s led to its re-colonization around the state.

All Shook Up

Where were you on April 10, 1962 when an earthquake centered in western Vermont caused a beam supporting the Vermont State House to dislodge, two beams under the dome weaken and 20 windows cracked?