Vermont is a state in the northeastern part of the United States, bordered by New York, Quebec, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Its capital is Montpellier, and major cities include Burlington and Rutland. Vermont is known as the Green Mountain State and was involved in the American Revolutionary War. Its state emblems include the red clover, sugar maple tree, and hermit thrush bird. The state drink is milk, and the state cake is apple pie.
Vermont is one of the fifty states that make up the United States of America and one of six New England states in the northeastern part of the country, along with Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. It borders New York to the west, Quebec to the north, Massachusetts to the south, and the Connecticut River to the east, which separates it from New Hampshire. Montpellier is the capital. Other major cities in Vermont are Burlington, Essex, Rutland, Colchester and South Burlington.
Vermont is 43rd among the 50 states in size with an area of 9,249.56 square miles (23,956.25 sq km), but ranks 49th in population with 608,827 in the 2000 census. It is 31st among the states in population density population. The first inhabitants of Vermont were, first and foremost, Paleo-Indians, some 11,000 years ago. These were followed by Native Americans of the Algonquian language group referred to as the Abenaki Confederacy, although there were also Mohican and Mohawk communities in the region. Unlike other New England states, Vermont’s name comes from its French settlement: the name comes from the French Vers Mont – green mountain, and Vermont is known as Green Mountain State.
Samuel de Champlain, the French explorer, reached the lake that bears his name on Vermont’s western border in 1609, and a permanent French settlement on La Motte Island 57 years later was the first in what is now Vermont. A Dutch community was established in 1724, and English-speaking settlers built Fort Dummer that same year.
Although Vermont was not one of the original Thirteen Colonies, it was involved in the American Revolutionary War. When Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont attacked Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775, it was the first offensive move by colonial forces in the struggle for independence. Vermont, however, was not recognized in the Continental Congress, and so became the fourteenth state a little later, joining the Union on March 4, 1791.
The proper noun for a Vermont resident is a Vermont. Vermont’s state motto is “Liberty and Unity.” The motto appears on the state coat of arms, which shows a landscape with a pine tree in the centre. In the background are mountains with a blue sky and the sun. On one side of the pine tree are three sheaves and on the other a red cow. The crest is the head of a deer. The coat of arms also appears on the state flag. Other state emblems include the following:
State Flower: Red Clover
State bird: hermit thrush
State Tree: Sugar Maple
State drink: Milk
State butterfly: Monarch butterfly
State insect: honey bee
State animal: Morgan Horse
State cake: apple pie. In a 1999 piece of legislation, it is suggested that the pie be served with cold milk, a wedge of cheddar cheese weighing at least 5 g or a large scoop of vanilla ice cream.
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