Popular Iconic Vermont Foods That Require Clean Water
Vermont is famous for the following foods:
Lamb
Lake Champlain Chocolates
Mape Creemee
Cider Doughnuts
Maple Syrup
Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
Fun Facts
Vermont’s name is derived from two French words–vert (“green”) and mont (“mountain”). French explorer Samuel de Champlain first gave the name “Verd Mont” to Vermont’s Green Mountains on his 1647 map.
Vermont is the largest producer of maple syrup in the United States.
Until 1996, Vermont was the only state without a Walmart.
Montpelier is the only state capital without a McDonald’s.
Vermont does not have any skyscraper. Vermont is the only state that does not have any buildings taller than 124 feet.
Vermont is one of four states that were once independent nations (Texas, California, and Hawaii are the other three). Vermont was known as Republic of New Connecticut between 1777 and 1791.
On May 5, 1978, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield opened their first Ben & Jerry’s shop in an old gas station in Burlington, Vermont.
On July 31, 1790, Samuel Hopkins of Pittsford, Vermont, became the first person in the United States to file and to be granted a patent.
The socket wrench was invented by J. J. Richardson of Woodstock, Vermont, who received a patent on June 18, 1863.
This page was last updated on July 31, 2022.
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