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The Money Brook in Plymouth (pop. 555) recalls the 1807 capture of a band of counterfeiters at the Saltash Mountain stream. The defendants’ sentences ranged from 39 to 50 lashes, a $700 fine and five years in prison.

first appeared: 7/18/2004

The Norman Rockwell Exhibit, housed in a 19th-century church in Arlington (pop. 2,397), memorializes the famous illustrator. Several of Rockwell’s models serve as hosts at the museum.

first appeared: 7/11/2004

Writer Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is credited with inventing the game of snow golf while living in Vermont. The author painted his golf balls red for contrast against the white snow.

first appeared: 6/27/2004

Vermont is one of only a few states that prohibit billboards along its roadways. The last one was removed in 1975.

first appeared: 6/20/2004

In 1834, Isaac Fisher of Springfield (pop. 9,078) invented sandpaper.

first appeared: 6/13/2004

Ida May Fuller, born outside Ludlow (pop. 2,449), was the first United States citizen to receive a Social Security check. Check number 00-000-001—for $22.54—was issued to Fuller in 1940.

first appeared: 6/6/2004

The Vermont Ski Museum, originally established in Brandon (pop. 3,917) in 1988, now resides in the Old Town Hall in Stowe (pop. 4,339). It chronicles 100 years of the state’s skiing history.

first appeared: 5/30/2004

In 2003, Vermont produced 430,000 gallons of maple syrup. Little wonder it is the nation’s leading producer of the product.

first appeared: 5/23/2004

Roughly 4,000 acres of Vermont farmland are dedicated to apple growing, generating $20 to $24 million in revenue a year in both fresh and processed products.

first appeared: 5/16/2004

Vermont celebrates its best known product each spring with maple sugar festivals. The events, held from St. Albans (7,650) to Whitingham (pop. 1,298), feature sugar house tours and pancake-and-syrup breakfasts.

first appeared: 5/9/2004

Gardner Spring Blodgett of Burlington (pop. 38,889) invented the cast iron cooking oven in 1848 for a Vermont tavern owner.

first appeared: 5/2/2004

The Solarfest, a renewable energy event held each July in Vermont, features music, storytelling, workshops and demonstrations—all powered by solar energy. This year, Green Mountain College in Poultney (pop. 3,633) will host the event.

first appeared: 4/25/2004

Born in Middlebury (pop. 6,252), golf champion Patty Sheehan has earned nearly $6 million in prize money in various tournaments, including her victories at The Nabisco Championship (1996), U.S. Women’s Open (1992, 1994), and the LPGA Championship (1983, 1984, 1993).

first appeared: 4/18/2004

Before she married and became first lady, Betty Ford studied dance at Bennington College in Vermont, afterward briefly becoming a member of Martha Graham’s noted concert group in New York City.

first appeared: 4/11/2004

The town of St. Albans (pop. 5,086) was once described by Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, as “a place in the midst of a greater variety of scenic beauty than any other I can remember in America.”

first appeared: 4/4/2004

Only two municipalities in the state are taken from American Indian words: Jamaica (from the Natick for “beaver”) and Winooski (Abnaki for “wild onion place”).

first appeared: 3/28/2004

Woodstock (pop. 1,037) reportedly is the site of the nation’s first ski tow, built in 1934. It was a rope tow powered by an old car engine.

first appeared: 3/21/2004

Vermont was the first state admitted to the Union, in 1791, after the 13 original colonies.

first appeared: 3/14/2004

The state was the last in America to get a Wal-Mart (in 1996).

first appeared: 3/7/2004

Calvin Coolidge, born in Plymouth in 1872, was the only president of the United States born on the Fourth of July.

first appeared: 2/29/2004

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