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Offers a chronological timeline of important dates, events, and milestones in Vermont history. From 7000-1000 BCE, Native Americans reside in Vermont, moving around the region seasonally to hunt, gather, and fish.
On this day, up to six inches of snow fell over most of Vermont. Another snowstorm in July and killing frosts in August and September erased all hope of raising crops that year. Many hard-pressed Vermonters were forced to eat roots and hedgehogs.
Read these stories about Vermont at different times in history. Think about the ways Vermont has changed and the ways Vermont has stayed the same.
September 8, 1910. Nineteen-year-old George Schmitt of Rutland became the first Vermonter to make an engine-powered airplane flight. September 15, 1910. Charles Willard flew an airplane for six minutes in St. Johnsbury. The plane was brought by train from Boston to the Caledonia County Fairgrounds.
1777-01-16 Vermont declares independence from New York; 1777-07-08 Independent Vermont introduces a new constitution, prohibiting slavery; 1777-08-16 American militiamen defeat British forces at the Battle of Bennington near Vermont, during the American Revolutionary War
The geologic history of Vermont begins more than 450 million years ago during the Cambrian and Devonian periods. Human history of Native American settlement can be divided into the hunter-gatherer Archaic Period, from c. 7000–1000 BC, and the sedentary Woodland Period, from c. 1000 BC to AD 1600.
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In 1791, fourteen years after declaring independence, Vermont became the 14 th state, and the first state to join the Union after the original 13 colonies. Deerfield Valley Wilmington was founded in 1751 on land granted by New Hampshire’s provincial governor, Benning Wentworth.
