some cool vermont facts:
- billboards are illegal
- vermont’s capital montpelier is only state capital without a mcdonalds
- montpelier is also the smallest capital city in the country
- you won’t find a target in vermont
- the honey bee is vermont’s state insect
- vermont only has one area code – 802
- mt. mansfield is highest point in vermont at 4,393 feet
- vermont is the largest producer of maple syrup in usa
- vermont was the first state to abolish slavery on july 2, 1777
- we call soft serve ice cream “creemees”
- talc is the state mineral
- charlotte, the white whale, is the state fossil. her fossilized bones are 12,500 years old
- all vermont zip codes start with 05
- mini league basketball was started in vermont
- lake champlain community sailing center in burlington was ranked as 9th best community sailing center by sail magazine in 2011
- champlain college has the 8th best undergraduate video game design program nationwide
- champlain college is also listed in Princeton Review Adds Champlain to ‘Best 376 Colleges’
- The Champlain Bridge (opened 11/2011 took 2 years and cost $76 million to build
- we have a chocolate school in burlington
- vermont is america’s healthiest state according to america’s health rankings in 2011
- the most interesting man in the world a.k.a. the dos equis man lives in vermont
- university of vermont was fifth school in nation to sign real food campus commitment
- the center for cartoon studies is the only cartoon school in the nation and it’s in vermont!
- vermont is the leading onshore captive insurance domicile with more than 900 captives
- the jefferson memorial and supreme court in washington, dc are made with vermont marble
- town of montgomery is the covered bridge capital of vermont
- the first rope tow in the country was built in woodstock in 1934
- the cross country ski center at the trapp family lodge was the first in the country in 1968
- the long trail is the oldest long distance hiking trail in the u.s.
- vermont is one of the largest players in the captive insurance industry in the world (bet you didn’t know that!)
- in 2006, vermont was first state to pass legislation making farm-to-school initiatives a priority with farm to school act 145 .
- the clothespin was patented in 1853 by vermont inventor, david m. smith
- vermont was first state in nation to ban hydraulic fracturing in may 2012
- the emily post institute is in burlington, vermont
- bruegger’s bagels is also based in burlington, vermont
- vermonter dr. horatio nelson jackson was the first person to drive across the us. horatio’s drive – america’s first road trip
- in 2012, Vermont was the 8th most entrepreneurial state. Oh yeah!
- Vermont was first state to introduce text-to-911
- the only library in the US with no books is The Haskell Free Library in Derby Line, Vermont (huh?)
- Rudyard Kipling wrote THE JUNGLE BOOK while living in Vermont – learn more
- on May 22, 2013, Vermont became the first state to take a stance against Patent Trolling
- in 2013 Vermont produced 1.3 gallons of maple syrup
- Vermont is the only state that regularly appoints a cartoonist laureate.
- In 2014, Bethany Bosch of Wallingford, VT became the 466th woman in the world to swim the English Channel
we’re adding to this list – if you have a cool fact that you think we should add, email us at mooglevermont@gmail.com
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