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Fuller Covered Bridge (1890) Creamery Covered Bridge (1883) Hectorville Covered Bridge (1883) Comstock Covered Bridge (1883) Hutchins Covered Bridge (1883) Longley Covered Bridge (1863) Hopkins Covered Bridge (1875)
1761
The town of Addison was founded in 1761
The town of Reading was chartered July 6, 1761
1787
Chittenden County was formed 1787
1777
In 1777 Vermont Constitution adopted
1781
Windsor County was founded in 1781.
The City of Montpelier was originally chartered in 1781
1785
The first marble quarry was started at East Dorset in 1785
1792
Franklin County was founded in 1792.
1802
Grand Isle County was founded in 1802
1830
The platform scale was invented in Saint Johnsbury, VT in 1830, when Thaddeus Fairbanks needed a way to weigh hemp.
1846
The first American-used postage stamp was made in Brattleboro in 1846.
1864
The Raid on St. Albans in 1864, when Confederates brought the Civil War home to northwestern Vermont. Confederate soldiers raid and plunder on Main Street in St. Albans, bringing the Civil War to the northern railroad town.
1872
Calvin Coolidge, 30th president, was born in Plymouth on July 4, 1872
1885
1854
Television first came to Vermont on September 26, 1954 when WCAX-TV became the first television station to begin airing local programs from its studio located on Barrett Street in South Burlington.
Rock of Ages Corporation was founded in 1885 and is an integrated granite quarrier, manufacturer and retailer whose principal product is granite memorials used primarily in cemeteries.
1976
Bill Koch of Guilford received the first Olympic medal for the US in Nordic skiing in 1976
1995
2000
December 2000 to April 2001, yours truely lived in Montpelier while on contract to the state for a computer software upgrade.
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