Several members of the Green Mountain Boys lived in Arlington before the American Revolution, including Thomas Chittenden, Seth Warner and Remember Baker, who was the first town clerk.
Gideon Hard, a United States Congressman from New York was born in Arlington.[4]
Dorothy Canfield Fisher,
Carl Ruggles
Barnard
Notable People
Sinclair Lewis, Nobel prize winning author.
Dorothy Thompson, journalist.
Bennington
Bennington is home to the Bennington Battle Monument, which is the tallest structure in the state of Vermont.
The town is known primarily for the Battle of Bennington, fought during the Revolutionary War (the battle was actually fought a few miles to the west in New York). On August 16, 1777, Gen. John Stark’s 1,500 New Hampshire Militia defeated 800 troops of German mercenaries, local Loyalists, Canadians and Indians under German Lt. Col. Friedrich Baum. German reinforcements under the command of Lt. Col. Heinrich von Breymann looked set to reverse the outcome, but were prevented by the arrival of Seth Warner’s Green Mountain Boys; the Vermont militia founded by Ethan Allen.
Robert Frost's grave
Bennington College
Brandon
Notable People
Thomas Jefferson Conant, biblical scholar.
Thomas Davenport[3] and Emily Davenport, inventors of the electric motor and electric locomotive.
Stephen A. Douglas, Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860
Brattleboro
Brattleboro is the oldest town in the state, and noted for its vibrant arts community, as well as the renowned Brattleboro Retreat, a psychiatric hospital and convalescent center.
Public Nudity
Public nudity, although not always welcomed by the denizens of the town, was not forbidden by any Vermont statute or Brattleboro ordinance until July 17, 2007. The town has drawn national attention when nudists make a visit to take advantage of the situation.[11][12] On July 17, 2007, Brattleboro town officials passed an emergency rule by a 3–2 margin, temporarily "banning nudity on the main roads and within 250 feet of any school or place of worship, among other places" due to a number of complaints
Petition against Bush and Cheney
On January 25, 2008, the town council by a 3-2 vote approved a petition to be placed on a March 4 ballot, calling for the indictment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for crimes against the United States Constitution. The petition reads: "Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution, and publish said indictments for consideration by other authorities and shall it be the law of the Town of Brattleboro that the Brattleboro Police, pursuant to the above-mentioned indictments, arrest and detain George Bush and Richard Cheney in Brattleboro if they are not duly impeached, and prosecute or extradite them to other authorities that may reasonably contend to prosecute them?"[15] The town council issued a statement on the petition, which the town voted on as a town meeting article on March 4, and passed
Cultural References
Brattleboro is the setting for much of H. P. Lovecraft's story The Whisperer in Darkness.[citation needed]
Brattleboro is mentioned repeatedly in David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest.[46]
The popular Joe Gunther mystery series written by Archer Mayor is largely set in Brattleboro.[citation needed]
Brattleboro is where the title character in Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin meets his English relatives, leading to his trip to England where the events of the play take place
Chester
Chester is famous for its "stone village", listed in the National Register of Historic Places. This section of the town is located along Vermont Route 103 in North Notable residents Fernando C. Beaman, politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. L. Paul Bremer, Director of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for post-war Iraq. Merritt A. Edson, general in the United States Marine Corps. James Robinson Graves, Baptist preacher, publisher, evangelist, debater, author, and editor. Thomas B. Marsh, leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles
George F. Emmons, naval officer on the Peacock which discovered the Antarctic Continent.
Colchester
Notable People
Tom Brennan, former coach of the University of Vermont Catamounts men's basketball team
Ray Collins, left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, 1909-1915
Donato Giancola, artist specializing in science fiction and fantasy illustration
Saint Michael's College is located here.
Notable Alumni
Moses Anderson, Roman Catholic Bishop
Donald Cook, United States Marine Corp Colonel, Prisoner of War, and Medal of Honor recipient
Tom Caron, host of Boston Red Sox coverage on NESN
Thomas E. Delahanty II, Maine Superior Court justice
James Fallon 1969?, neuroscientist
Tom Freston, Former President and CEO of Viacom and one of the founders of MTV
Robert Hoehl, co-founder of IDX Systems Corporation
Martin Hyun, German ice hockey player with Krefeld Pinguine
Patrick Leahy, Senior U.S. Senator from Vermont
Richard Tarrant, co-founder of IDX Systems Corporation
Loung Ung, peace activist, author of First They Killed My Father.
George Latimer, DFL mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota from 1976 to 1990
Robert White (ambassador), Former US Ambassador to El Salvador and Paraguay, and President of the Center for International Policy
Michael Tranghese, Commissioner of the Big East Conference
Duxbury
It claims to be the only municipality in the United States which has an elected position of dogcatcher.
In 1880, Emeline Meaker of Duxbury was hanged for poisoning her niece, Alice. The trial received much coverage throughout the country. She was the first woman hanged in Vermont E Montpelier
Notable People
Jeff Danziger, syndicated political cartoonist and author.
Liz Stephen, World Cup skier
Cold Hollow Sculpture Park - Enosburgh
Enosburgh
Cold Hollow Sculpture Park
Notable People
Larry Gardner, third baseman in Major League Baseball.
Susan Tolman Mills, co-founder of Mills College, Oakland, CA
Fairfield
Notable People
Chester A. Arthur, twenty-first President of the United States.[3]
Bradley Barlow, a United States Representative from Vermont, was born in Fairfield.
Jericho is famous throughout the world as the birthplace and lifelong home of Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley (1865–1931), an American farmer who photographed over five thousand snow crystals. Bentley's fine photographic works are presented at The Old Red Mill & Museum in the center of town.
Killington
Killington's voters have twice voted to secede from Vermont and join the state of New Hampshire 25 miles to the east. The movement stems from what some residents perceive as an inequity in taxes sent to the state of Vermont, and services received. The votes are largely symbolic, as secession would require the agreement of both states' legislatures.
Lowell
Notable People
John C. Caldwell, teacher, diplomat and Union general in the American Civil War
Ludlow
Notable People
Richard F. Pettigrew, lawyer, surveyor, land developer and U.S. Senator from South Dakota
Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States
Ludlow is the home of Okemo Mountain, a popular skiing area.
Lyndon
Notable People
Theodore Newton Vail lived here after retirement, and contributed to the town in a number of ways
Manchester
Notable People
Charles Augustus Aiken, clergyman, president of Union College, professor at Princeton University
Joseph Sweetman Ames, physicist and president of Johns Hopkins University
Edmund Bennett, judge and educator
Myra Bradwell, first American woman to become an attorney
James M. Clarke, congressman
Jeremiah French, soldier, judge and political figure in Upper Canada
Robert Todd Lincoln, first son of Abraham Lincoln
Ahiman Louis Miner, congressman
Benjamin S. Roberts, Union army general
The Samples, alternative rock band
Clara Sipprell, photographer
Richard Skinner, jurist and congressman
Treat Williams, movie and television actor
Montpelier
By population, it is the smallest state capital in the United States
The Vermont History Museum and Vermont College of Fine Arts are located in Montpelier
Notable People
Frederick W. Adams, physician and author
Michael Arnowitt, classical and jazz pianist
George W. Cate, congressman
Richard A. Cody, general
Jessica Comolli, beauty queen
Kathryn Davis, award-winning novelist
Hannibal Day, army officer
George Dewey, admiral
William Charles Fitzgerald, naval officer
Garrett Graff, editor and educator
Mary Hooper, mayor
Vincent Illuzzi, politician
Jim Laird, football player
Patrick Leahy, senator
Cover Art by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson
Frank Miller, comic book writer and artist
Lucas Miltiades Miller, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
Anais Mitchell, singer/songwriter
Asahel Peck, governor of Vermont
Samuel Prentiss, senator
Arthur E. Scott, photo-historian of U.S.
Senate John Mellen Thurston, senator
Samuel C. Upham, journalist and counterfeiter
William Upham, senator
Eliakim Persons Walton, congressman
Charles W. Willard, congressman
Thomas Waterman Wood, painter
Eric Zencey, novelist and essayist
Moretown
Notable People
Matthew H. Carpenter, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin.
Morristown
Notable People
H. Henry Powers, lawyer, politician (Member of the U.S. House, 1891-1901)
Leslie M. Shaw, businessman, lawyer and politician (Governor of Iowa, 1898-1902; U.S. Treasury Secretary, 1902-07); candidate for the 1908 Republican Presidential nomination.
Shap Smith, lawyer, Speaker of the Vermont House (2009- )
Horatio Earle, creator of the world's first mile of concrete road.
Hannah Teter, Olympic snowboarder.
New Haven
Notable People
Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, founder of Grinnell, Iowa and benefactor of Grinnell College. Curtis M. Lampson, fur merchant, best remembered for his promotion of the transatlantic telegraph cable. Royal T. Sprague, 11th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California
Peacham
Films
1987 movie, A Return to Salem's Lot[citation needed] 1993 movie, "Ethan Frome" 1993 movie, "Where the Rivers Flow North" 1996 movie, The Spitfire Grill
Notable People
Harry Barnes, Former US Ambassador to Chile, India, and Romania.
Edward Behr (food writer), author of the Art of Eating Quarterly.
William Chamberlain was a United States Representative from Vermont.
David Dellinger, a renowned pacifist and author.
James Engle, Former US Ambassador to Benin and noted tree farmer, founder of "Vermont Coverts".[citation needed]
George Harvey, Former US Ambassador to Great Britain, diplomat of note.
John Mattocks, Whig politician and 16th governor of Vermont.
John Martin, steamboat captain and businessman.
Samuel Merrill, early leading citizen of Indiana.
Thaddeus Stevens, Abolitionist politician.
Samuel Worcester, Missionary to the Cherokee, plaintiff in the groundbreaking case Worcester v. Georgia.
Pittsfield
Notable People
Charles Herbert Joyce, congressman
Plainfield
Goddard College
Notable Alumni
Mumia Abu-Jamal –
Piers Anthony – author
Howard Ashman - actor, playwright (Little Shop of Horrors), lyricist (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast)
Daniel Boyarin - professor (Jewish Studies)
Jared Carter - poet
Tim Costello (1945–2009), labor and anti-globalization advocate and author[1]
Trey Anastasio - rock band member (Phish)
Norman Dubie, poet
Larry Feign - cartoonist (The World of Lily Wong)
Robert M. Fisher - abstract artist
Jon Fishman - rock band member (Phish)
James Gahagan - abstract artist
David Gallaher - writer (High Moon)
Ann Gillespie - actress (Beverly Hills, 90210)
Bradford Graves - sculptor, musician, professor (fine arts, sculpture)
Peter Hannan - artist, writer, producer (CatDog)
Wayne Karlin - author
Jonathan Katz - writer, actor, producer (Dr. Katz)
Neil Landau - screenwriter, playwright, television producer
Michael Lent - artist and curator
William H. Macy - actor
David Mamet - writer, director, Pulitzer prize winner in drama (Glengarry Glen Ross)
Mary Karr - author
Page McConnell - rock band member (Phish)
Walter Mosley – author
Russell Potter - Arctic historian, author
Tobias Schneebaum - artist, anthropologist, AIDS activist
Archie Shepp – saxophonist
Stephen C. Smith - economist, professor, author, poverty activist
Kenneth R. Timmerman - correspondent, author, activist
Thomas Yamamoto - art instructor, not technically an alumnus
Paul Zaloom - puppeteer Bread & Puppet Theater}
Plymouth
Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States, was born in and is buried in Plymouth.
Pomfret
The first ski tow in the United States was established at South Pomfret in 1934, and became known as Suicide Six.
Notable People
Dana Stone, Vietnam War journalist and photographer
Judah Dana, U.S. senator for Maine
Luke S. Johnson, leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
Lyman E. Johnson, leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
Joe Perry, guitarist for the rock band Aerosmith
Jenne Farm
Reading
Jenne Farm is a farm located in Reading, Vermont. It is one of the most photographed farms in the world, especially in autumn. The farm has appeared in magazine covers, photography books, and a Budweiser television advertisement; it has also served as a setting in the films Forrest Gump and Funny Farm. Photographs of the farm have appeared on posters, postcards and wall calendars. Despite its fame, the private farm is located along a dirt road and is not heavily promoted. The only sign indicating its presence is a tiny board along Vermont State Route 106 advertising maple syrup. The farm became noted for photogenic scenery about 1955 when a photography school in South Woodstock discovered it. Later it appeared as an entry in a Life photo contests, on the cover of Yankee magazine, and in Vermont Life.
Readsboro
Notable People
Welcome Chapman was born in Readsboro in the early 19th century. His grandfather, Throope Chapman, was one of the founders of Readsboro.
Richmond
Richmond is noted for the Round Church, a rare 16-sided meetinghouse built in 1812-1813.
Notable People
Trey Anastasio, guitarist and singer for the music group Phish
Barbara Cochran, Olympic alpine skier and member of the Skiing Cochrans
George F. Edmunds, U.S. Senator from Vermont
Louis Greenough, pioneer and inventor
George Dallas Sherman, first leader of the Burlington Concert Band
Royalton
Although Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of Mormonism, was born in the adjacent town of Sharon near the Royalton boundary, the Joseph Smith Birthplace Memorial lies in the town
Frederick Billings, lawyer, financier and railroad president
Albert Carrington, religious leader
Salmon P. Chase, senator, governor, treasury secretary and chief justice
Jacob Collamer, congressman, postmaster general and senator
Dudley Chase Denison, congressman
Charles Durkee, senator
Truman Henry Safford, calculating prodigy
William Smith, religious leader
Rupert
Notable People
Frederick Buechner - writer
Israel Smith, lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Vermont.
Rutland to become one of the world's leading marble producers
In 1894, the nation's first polio outbreak was identified in the Rutland area. 132 people from the Rutland area were affected. Seven died. 110 others suffered some paralysis for life. 55 were from the city itself
Notable People
John Deere, industrialist
James E. Burke, former CEO Johnson & Johnson
Suzy Chaffee, Olympic skier and actress
Barry M. Costello, Vice admiral in the United States Navy[17]
Thomas W. Costello, politician
Merritt A. Edson, general
Mia Farrow, actress
David Giancola, filmmaker
Joy Hakim, history writer
George Tisdale Hodges, congressman
Steven Howard, politician
Jim Jeffords, senator
Carlene King Johnson, Miss USA 1955
Aaron Lewis, lead singer of the band Staind
Andrea Mead-Lawrence, first American to win two gold Olympic skiing medals
Mary McGarry Morris, novelist
Arlie Pond, baseball player
Robert Stafford, governor, congressman and senator
Cherilee Taylor, TV and movie actress
John Martin Thomas, president of Rutgers University
Dan Tyminski, bluegrass composer, vocalist and instrumentalist
Steve Wisniewski, football player Fictional residents
Master Pandemonium, comic book villain Snow Job, G.I. Joe character
Sandgate
Notable People
Ormsby B. Thomas, Wisconsin politician
Shaftbury
Notable People
Irving Adler, author, mathematician, scientist, and educator.
The Vermontasaurus is the creation of Brian Boland, a retired teacher and experimental balloon pilot, who with a crew of volunteers used scrap lumber obtained from a collapsed portion of Boland's private museum and hot-air balloon manufacturing facility to build the sculpture, starting in June 2010. Boland adopted the name, "Vermontasaurus," from the comment of an onlooker
Thetford is home to Thetford Academy, Vermont's oldest secondary school.
Notable alumni:
Thomas Williams Bicknell, historian, educator
William E. Chandler, U.S. Senator, Secretary of Navy
Hannah Slade Currier, educator John Eaton (General), Civil War leader
Mary Greenleaf Clement Leavitt, temperance movement missionary
Justin Smith Morrill, U.S. Senator In 1974,
Thetford became the first U.S. municipality to call for the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon
Notable People
William Closson, artist
Andrew Cook, businessman
John Eaton, brigadier general
Anne Lindbergh, author and daughter of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Gustavus Loomis, brigadier general
Harvey Newcomb, clergyman and writer
Grace Paley, National Book Award winning fiction writer and poet
Noel Perrin, essayist
Annie Proulx, author
James S. Shapiro, professor
Henry Wells, businessman and co-founder of Wells Fargo and American Express
Dean Conant Worcester, zoologist, public official, and authority on the Philippines
Tinmouth
Notable People
Nathaniel Chipman, former Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court and U.S. Senator from Vermont
John Mattocks, former Governor of Vermont
Stephen Royce, former Governor of Vermont
Tom Peters, American writer on business management practices
Townshend
Notable People
Peter W. Galbraith, former United States Ambassador to Croatia and the author of The End of Iraq.
Clarina I. H. Nichols, journalist, lobbyist and public speaker involved in temperance, abolition, and the women's movement.
Alphonso Taft, United States Attorney General and Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant and the founder of an American political dynasty.
Attila Zoller, guitarist
In Popular Culture
H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Whisperer in Darkness" is set near Townshend.
Funny Farm with Chevy Chase was filmed in Townshend
Troy
Notable People
Amasa Tracy - recipient of the Medal of Honor
Tunbridge
Just before dawn on October 16, 1780, the town line of Tunbridge and Royalton was witness to the last major raid of the Revolutionary War in New England. In the "Royalton Raid" three hundred Indians led by British soldiers invaded from Canada along the First Branch of the White River. Part of a series of raids designed to terrorize frontier settlements, the result was the destruction of dozens of homes, crops and livestock necessary to survive the coming winter. Although women and girls were not harmed, 28 men and boys were taken captive and marched to Canada to be imprisoned. In the years that followed, many of the captives made their way back to their families, but some never returned. One resident, Peter Button, was killed in Tunbridge near the Royalton town line along what is Rte. 110 today; an historic marker has been erected there.
Notable People
Harry David Lee, founder of Lee Jeans spent his childhood in Tunbridge.
Stephen Mack, merchant and politician.
John O'Brien, film maker, director.
Hyrum Smith, leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement.
Joseph Smith, Sr., father of Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Samuel Harrison Smith, missionary.
Fred Tuttle, farmer, movie actor, candidate for political office.
Waterbury is the location of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, whose factory tours have become Vermont's most popular tourist attraction
The state opened the Vermont State Asylum for the Insane here in 1891.[5]. The institution survives here to the present day, renamed the Vermont State Hospital.
Notable People
William P. Dillingham, politician.
Wallace M. Greene, Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Henry Janes, physician and soldier (Chief Surgeon at Gettysburg), farmer, and humanitarian.
[7] William Wells, merchant, Civil War general, Medal of Honor recipient
Whittingham
Whitingham is the birthplace of Brigham Young, the Mormon prophet and founder of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Whitingham is also the headquarters of the North Atlantic Conference.
Notable People
Isaac Goodnow, founder of Manhattan, Kansas and Kansas State University
Brigham Young, early leader of the Latter Day Saints (Mormon)
Williamstown
Notable People
Elijah Paine, U.S. Senator from Vermont
Williston
An Amtrak train derailed in Williston July 7, 1984, killing five people and injuring two hundred. Although the accident triggered one of Vermont's most intensive emergency responses, the final victims were not rescued until the end of the day
Notable People
Edwin Atwater, Canadian businessman and politician
Thomas Chittenden, first governor of Vermont and founder of Williston.
Jerry Greenfield, entrepreneur, a co-founder of Ben & Jerry's.
Ben Cohen, entrepreneur, a co-founder of Ben & Jerry's.
Haviland Smith, a retired CIA officer and former station chief
