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As a guest of the Vermont Fish and Game League at Isle la Motte (pop. 488), Vice President Theodore Roosevelt heard that President William McKinley had been shot on Sept. 6, 1901. The president died eight days later.

first appeared: 11/20/2005

The American Precision Museum, housed in the 1846 Robbins and Lawrence Armory and Machine Shop in Windsor (pop. 3,756), preserves the history of the American System of manufacture, in which machine tools and templates were designed and used to make interchangeable parts.

first appeared: 11/6/2005

The first horse farm operated by the U.S. government was established in 1907 at Middlebury (pop. 6,252) to breed Morgans for the cavalry.

first appeared: 10/23/2005

John LeClair of St. Albans (pop. 7,650), a Philadelphia Flyers wing, became the first U.S-born player to score 50 goals in three consecutive National Hockey League seasons.

first appeared: 10/9/2005

In 1666, Fort Ste. Anne was constructed on Isle LaMotte in Lake Champlain, becoming the first white settlement and the site of the first Catholic Mass in present-day Vermont.

first appeared: 9/25/2005

James Wilson established the nation’s first globe-making factory in Bradford (pop. 815) in 1813. The geographic spheres ranged from 3 to 13 inches in diameter and sold for $22 to $55.

first appeared: 9/18/2005

Founded in 1819, Norwich University in Northfield (pop. 5,791) was the nation’s first private military college. It also was the first private university to offer an engineering education.

first appeared: 9/11/2005

The 1858 Windmill Point Light, near Alburg (pop. 488), is the northernmost of Lake Champlain’s lighthouses. Its lens was removed in 1931, and the lighthouse remained dark until 2002 when it became the first of the lake’s lighthouses to be relit.

first appeared: 8/28/2005

In 1785, the government of Vermont, then an independent republic, authorized Reuben Harmon Jr. to operate the first mint on American soil. He set up the coin-making shop at Rupert (pop. 704).

first appeared: 8/14/2005

Mount Independence, on the Vermont shore of Lake Champlain, is the site of a Revolutionary War fort complex. Troops stationed at Mount Independence, along with those at Fort Ticonderoga on the opposite side of the lake, successfully delayed a British invasion from Canada until 1777.

first appeared: 7/31/2005

Founded in 1987, the Birds of Vermont Museum, in Huntington (pop. 1,861), features more than 450 life-size birds representing 258 species, all depicted in their natural habitats and carved by Robert Spear Jr., a native of Burlington (pop. 39,466).

first appeared: 7/17/2005

Established in 1818, Castleton (pop. 4,367) Medical Academy, later known as the Vermont Academy of Medicine, was one of the nation’s first schools of medicine.

first appeared: 6/19/2005

Clarence DeMar of South Hero (pop. 1,696), known as Mr. DeMarathon, won the Boston Marathon seven times between 1911 and 1930. He claimed his seventh victory at the age of 41.

first appeared: 6/5/2005

The Equinox Hotel, in Manchester (pop. 602), is home to one branch of the British School of Falconry, where students learn how to handle and fly a hawk and hunt for partridge, quail and rabbit using the bird of prey.

first appeared: 5/22/2005

Danby Quarry in Danby (pop. 1,292), more than a mile long with a footprint of 25 acres, is the largest underground marble quarry in the world.

first appeared: 5/8/2005

The state’s first constitution was adopted on July 8, 1777, at a Windsor (pop. 3,756) tavern now known as the Old Constitution House. The constitution was the nation’s first to prohibit slavery, establish universal manhood suffrage, and call for a public school system.

first appeared: 4/24/2005

Hyde Park (pop. 2,847) resident Gordon Tallman and his late brother, Clifford, were awarded the Vermont Folklife Center’s Heritage Award in 2002 for their songs, poems and stories, which celebrate a lifetime of farming in the state.

first appeared: 4/10/2005

Albert Gutterson, a native of Springfield (pop. 3,938), earned a gold medal for his nearly 25-foot long jump at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden.

first appeared: 3/27/2005

Founded in 1885, Rock of Ages Quarry in Barre (pop. 9,291) is one of the world’s largest granite quarries.

first appeared: 3/13/2005

The Bennington (pop. 9,168) Museum houses the largest public collection of Grandma Moses (1860-1961) paintings and the schoolhouse that the acclaimed folk artist, born Anna Mary Robertson, attended as a child.

first appeared: 2/27/2005

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