Burlington is the largest city in the
U.S. stateA U.S. state is any one of 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government . Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile...
of
VermontThe State of Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd by land area, , and 45th by total area. It has a population of 621,270, making it the second least-populated state...
and the shire town (
county seatA county seat is a term for an administrative center for a county or civil parish, primarily used in the United States. In the Northeast United States, the statutory term often is shire town, but colloquially county seat is the term in use there...
) of
Chittenden CountyChittenden County (ˈtʃɪʔənˌdən/) is a county located in the U.S. state of Vermont. As of 2000, the population was 146,571, making it the most populous county in the state. Its shire town is Burlington....
. With a population of 38,889 at the 2000 census, the city is the core of one of the nation's smaller metropolitan areas, and is also the smallest U.S. city to be the largest city in its state. The urbanized area consists of the cities of Burlington,
South BurlingtonSouth Burlington is a city in Chittenden County, Vermont, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 15,814. It is one of the anchors of the Burlington-South Burlington metropolitan area....
, and
WinooskiWinooski is a city in Chittenden County, Vermont, in the United States. Located at the mouth of the Winooski River, as of the 2000 census the city population was 6,561...
; the towns of
ColchesterColchester is a town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. The population was 16,986 at the 2000 census. It is the fourth-largest municipality and second-largest town in Vermont by population.-Geography:...
,
EssexEssex is a town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. The population was 18,626 at the 2000 census.By population, Essex is the largest town in Vermont, and the second-largest municipality .-Government:...
, and
WillistonWilliston is a town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. The population was 7,650 at the 2000 census. It is one of the fastest-growing towns in the state, and during the last decade, has developed as a major retail center for the Burlington area as well as much of central and northern...
; and the village of
Essex JunctionEssex Junction is a village in the town of Essex in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. The population was 8,591 at the 2000 census. It was incorporated on November 15, 1892....
.
As of 2000, the
metropolitan areaThe Burlington-South Burlington Metropolitan Statistical Area , as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget, is an area consisting of three counties in northwestern Vermont, anchored by the cities of Burlington and South Burlington and containing four of Vermont's nine cities...
contained the three northwestern Vermont counties of Chittenden,
FranklinFranklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Vermont. It is part of the Burlington-South Burlington, VT Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2000, the population was 45,417. Its shire town is St. Albans.-Geography:According to the U.S...
, and
Grand IsleGrand Isle County is a county located in the U.S. state of Vermont. It is the smallest county in the state by area. As of 2000, the population was 6,901. Its shire town is North Hero....
, with an estimated 2006 population of 206,007, approximately one third of Vermont's total population.
History
One of the
New Hampshire grantsThe New Hampshire Grants or Benning Wentworth Grants were land grants made between 1749 and 1764 by the provincial governor of New Hampshire, Benning Wentworth. The land grants, totaling about 135 , were made on land claimed by New Hampshire west of the Connecticut River, territory that was also...
, it was awarded by Governor
Benning WentworthBenning Wentworth was the colonial governor of New Hampshire from 1741 to 1766. The son of the John Wentworth who had been Lieutenant Governor, he was born and died in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His nephew John Wentworth succeeded him. Wentworth graduated from Harvard College in 1715 and married...
on July 7, 1763 to Samuel Willis and 63 others. In the summer of 1775, land clearing began and two or three log huts were erected, but the
RevolutionThe American Revolutionary War , also sometimes known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen united former British colonies in North America, and concluded in a global war between several European great powers...
delayed permanent settlement until 1783, when Stephen Lawrence arrived with his family. The town was organized in 1785.
The
War of 1812The War of 1812, between the United States of America and the British Empire , lasted from 1812 to 1815. It was fought chiefly on the Atlantic Ocean and on the land, coasts and waterways of North America.There were several immediate stated causes for the U.S...
was unpopular in Vermont. Along with the rest of
New EnglandNew England is a region of the United States. It is located at the northeastern corner of the US, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, Canada and the state of New York, consisting of the modern U.S...
, Vermont did not provide militia units or financial support – a serious blow to the cause. Vermont voted for the Federalist party, which opposed the war. Nevertheless, 5,000 troops were stationed here at one point during the War of 1812, outnumbering residents. About 500 of these died of disease. Some soldiers were quartered in the main building at the University of Vermont. A memorial plaque commemorates them.
In a skirmish on August 2, 1813, the
BritishThe British are citizens of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants. In a historical context, the term refers to the ancient Britons, the indigenous inhabitants of Great Britain south of the...
shelled Burlington. This has either been cited as a bold stroke by the British with an ineffectual response from the Americans, or a weak sally by the British properly ignored by the Americans, depending on who related the story. The cannonade lasted for about ten minutes and did not affect the outcome of the war. The American side was commanded by Naval Lieutenant
Thomas MacDonoughThomas MacDonough was an early-19th-century American naval officer. He a leading member of "Preble's Boys", a small group of naval officers who served during the First Barbary War. His most notable achievement occurred during the War of 1812...
, later hero of the
Battle of Lake ChamplainThe Battle of Plattsburgh, also known as the Battle of Lake Champlain, ended the final invasion of the northern states during the War of 1812...
.
The town's position on Lake Champlain helped it develop into a
port of entryA port of entry is a place where one may lawfully enter a country. It typically has a staff of persons who check passports and visas and inspect luggage to assure that contraband is not imported. International airports are usually ports of entry, as are road and rail crossings on a land border....
and center for
tradeTrade is the voluntary exchange of goods, services, or both. Trade is also called commerce or transaction. A mechanism that allows trade is called a market. The original form of trade was barter, the direct exchange of goods and services. Later one side of the barter were the metals, precious...
, particularly after completion of the
Champlain CanalThe Champlain Canal is a 60-mile canal that connects the south end of Lake Champlain to the Hudson River in New York. It was simultaneously constructed with the Erie Canal and is now part of the New York State Canal System and the Lakes to Locks Passage....
in 1823, the
Erie CanalThe Erie Canal is a man-made waterway in New York that runs about 363 miles from Albany on the Hudson River to Buffalo at Lake Erie, completing a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes...
in 1825, and the
Chambly CanalThe Chambly Canal is a National Historic Site of Canada in the Province of Quebec, running along the Richelieu River past St-Jean-sur-Richelieu and Chambly. Building commenced in 1831 and the canal opened in 1843. It served as a major commercial route during a time of heightened trade between the...
in 1843. Waterfront
wharvesA wharf is a landing place or pier where ships may tie up and load or unload.A wharf commonly comprises a fixed platform, often on pilings. They often serve as interim storage areas with warehouses, since the typical objective is to unload and reload vessels as quickly as possible...
allowed
steamboatA steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a ship in which the primary method of propulsion is steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels....
s to connect freight and passengers with the Rutland & Burlington Railroad and Vermont Central Railroad. Burlington became a bustling lumbering and
manufacturingManufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to make things for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...
center, and incorporated as a city in 1865. Its
Victorian eraThe Victorian era of the United Kingdom was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from June 1837 until her death on the 22nd of January 1901. The reign was a long period of prosperity for the British people, as profits gained from the overseas British Empire, as well as from industrial improvements...
prosperity left behind much fine
architectureFor a topical guide to this subject, see Outline of architecture. Architecture is the art and science of designing and constructing buildings and other physical structures for human shelter or use....
, including buildings by
Ammi B. YoungAmmi Burnham Young was an important 19th century American architect whose commissions transitioned from the Greek Revival to the Neo-Renaissance styles. His Second Vermont State House brought him fame and success, which eventually led him to become the first Supervising Architect of the U.S....
, H. H. Richardson and McKim, Mead & White. The city was a filming location for
Me, Myself & Irene (2000) and
What Lies BeneathWhat Lies Beneath is a supernatural thriller / horror film by film director Robert Zemeckis. It tells the story of a housewife who finds her home is haunted. The film stars Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer as Norman and Claire Spencer....
(2000).
In 1870, the waterfront was extended by construction of the Pine Street Barge Canal. This became polluted over the years and is a focus for cleanup in 2009.
Current
U.S. SenatorThe United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the lower house being the House of Representatives. The composition and powers of the Senate and the House are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution . Each U.S state is represented by two senators,...
Bernie SandersBernard "Bernie" Sanders is the junior United States Senator from Vermont, elected on November 7, 2006. Before becoming Senator, Sanders represented Vermont's at-large district in the United States House of Representatives for 16 years.Sanders is a self-described democratic socialist, but because...
was the
SocialistThe Socialist Party USA is one of the heirs to the Socialist Party of America of Eugene V. Debs and Norman Thomas. It is a democratic socialist, multi-tendency party, advocating a broad-based, democratic social revolution from below...
mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989.
In 2007, the city was named one of the top four "places to watch" in the United States by the AARP. Ratings were based on what was perceived as ideal for older residents. Criteria included what makes a community livable: new urbanism, smart growth, mixed-use development, and easy-living standards.
Demographics
As of the
censusA "census" is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population.In other words every 10 years...next one would be in 2010 The term is used mostly in connection with...
of 2000, there were 38,889 people, 15,885 households, and 7,052 families residing in the city. The
population densityPopulation density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans. It is a key term used in geography....
was 3,682.0 people per square mile (1,421.9/km²). There were 16,395 housing units at an average density of 1,552.3 per square mile (599.4/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 92.27% White, 1.78% Black or African American, 0.47% Native American, 2.65% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.54% from other races, and 2.27% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.40% of the population.
There were 15,885 households out of which 21.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 31.4% were
married couplesMarriage is a social union or legal contract between individuals that creates kinship. It is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged by a variety of ways, depending on the culture or demographic...
living together, 10.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 55.6% were non-families. 35.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.19 and the average family size was 2.86.
In the city the population was spread out with 16.3% under the age of 18, 25.4% from 18 to 24, 31.0% from 25 to 44, 16.8% from 45 to 64, and 10.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 29 years. For every 100 females there were 93.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.7 males.
At the 2005-2007 American Community Survey Estimates, the city's population was 94.4% White (91.1% non-Hispanic White alone), 3.5% Black or African American, 0.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 2.0% Asian, 1.0% from some other race and 1.7% from two or more races. 2.4% of the total population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Geography
The city is situated on the eastern shore of
Lake ChamplainLake Champlain is a natural, freshwater lake in North America, located mainly within the borders of the United States but partially situated across the Canada – United States border in the Canadian province of Quebec.The New York portion of the Champlain Valley includes the eastern portions of...
, north of Shelburne Bay. It was built on a strip of land extending about 6
miA mile is a unit of length in a number of different systems. In contemporary English, mile most commonly refers to the statute mile of 1,609.344 meters or the nautical mile of 1,852 meters...
south from the mouth of the
Winooski RiverThe Winooski River is a tributary of Lake Champlain, approximately 90 miles long, in northern Vermont in the United States. Although not Vermont's longest river, it is one of the state's most significant, forming a major valley way from Lake Champlain through the Green Mountains towards the...
along the lake shore and rises from the water's edge to a height of 300 ft.
Etymology
Some believe Burlington was named after
Richard BoyleRichard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork PC , born in Yorkshire, England was the son of Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington and 3rd Earl of Cork...
,
3rd Earl of BurlingtonEarl of Burlington is a title that has been created twice, the first time in the Peerage of England and the second in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation was for Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork, on 20 March 1664...
; others assert that the name honors the politically prominent and wealthy Burling family of New York, which, while no family members are listed as grantees of this town, held large tracts of land in other nearby towns, some of which were granted on the same day as Burlington.
Climate
Lake Champlain as a body of water is often responsible for localized
snowsquallA snowsquall is a sudden moderately heavy snow fall with blowing snow and strong, gusty surface winds. It is often referred to as a whiteout and is similar to a blizzard but is localized in time or in space and snow accumulations may or may not be significant.-Lake effect snow:When arctic air...
s, producing up to 13 inches in 12 hours on rare occasions.
The coldest days on record were on January 15, 1957 and February 12, 1979.
Economy
One measure of economic activity is retail sales. Burlington was fifth in the state in 2007 with $242.2 million.
Personal income
As of the
censusA "census" is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population.In other words every 10 years...next one would be in 2010 The term is used mostly in connection with...
of 2000, the median income for a household in the city was $33,070, and the median income for a family was $46,012. Males had a median income of $30,144 versus $25,270 for females. The
per capita incomePer capita income means how much each individual receives, in monetary terms, of the yearly income generated in the country. This is what each citizen is to receive if the yearly national income is divided equally among everyone. Per capita income is usually reported in units of currency per year...
for the city was $19,011. About 10.4% of families and 20.0% of the population were below the
poverty lineThe poverty threshold, or poverty line, is the minimum level of income deemed necessary to achieve an adequate standard of living in a given country...
, including 19.4% of those under age 18 and 10.5% of those age 65 or over.
There were 4,989 single-family owner-occupied homes. Their median value was $131,200.
Industry
Burlington's economy is based mostly in education and health services; trade, transportation and utilities; though the city retains some manufacturing work. The city's largest employer is Fletcher Allen Health Care and The University of Vermont employing 4086 and 3137 people respectively.
Corporate headquarters located here include:Burton Snowboards,
Bruegger'sBruegger's Enterprises, Inc. commonly known as Bruegger's, is a franchiser and operator of bakery-cafés. Their restaurants serve bagels, breads, coffee, specialty drinks, soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps, paninis, desserts, fresh fruit and a large variety of other related items...
,
Seventh Generation Inc.Seventh Generation, Inc. is a company that sells cleaning, paper, and personal care products. The company was founded in 1988 and is based in Burlington, Vermont...
, and
Lake Champlain ChocolatesLake Champlain Chocolates is a privately held chocolate manufacturer located in Burlington, Vermont. The company handcrafts over one million pounds of gourmet chocolates each year. Their products are sold nationally through independent specialty food retailers...
. Downtown on Church Street is the Burlington Town Center mall with over 75 specialty shops and 15 national retailers such as
Macy'sMacy's is a chain of mid-to-high range American department stores. Its selection of merchandise can vary significantly from location to location, resulting in the exclusive availability of certain brands in only higher-end stores...
,
Hollister Co.Hollister Co. is an American lifestyle brand by Abercrombie & Fitch Co. The concept is designed to attract consumers aged 14-18 through its SoCal-inspired image and casual wear. Goods are available in-store and through the company's online store...
,
Abercrombie & FitchAbercrombie & Fitch is an American fashion retailer, headed by chairman and CEO Michael S. Jeffries. The A&F brand focuses on casualwear for a target consumer ages of 18 through 22. With over 300 locations in the United States, the brand has embarked on international expansion throughout various...
,
American Eagle OutfittersAmerican Eagle Outfitters is an American clothing and accessories retailer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1977 by Mark and Jerry Silverman as a subsidiary of Retail Ventures, Inc., a company which also owned and operated Silverman's Menswear. The Silvermans sold their...
, and
Old NavyOld Navy is an American brand of clothing and chain of stores owned by Gap, Inc. Old Navy's corporate operations are within Gap in San Francisco and San Bruno, California. It is one of the first major corporations to house headquarters in the new Mission Bay district of San Francisco. Gap, Inc. was...
.
ForbesForbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, Forbes magazine, is published fortnightly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published fortnightly, and Business Week...
magazine selected the city as one of the "prettiest" cities in 2009, featuring a picture of the Church Street Marketplace.
The G.S. Blodgett Company, one of the oldest and largest commercial oven companies in the country, manufactures restaurant equipment. Its history dates back to the mid 1800s.
IDX SystemsIDX Systems Corporation was a healthcare software technology company that formerly had headquarters in South Burlington, Vermont, United States. It was founded in 1969 by Robert Hoehl, Richard Tarrant, and Paul Egerman...
, now a division of
General ElectricThe General Electric Company, or GE , is a multinational American technology and services conglomerate incorporated in the State of New York. In 2009, Forbes ranked GE as the world's largest company...
, develops software for the hospital industry and is headquartered in
South BurlingtonSouth Burlington is a city in Chittenden County, Vermont, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 15,814. It is one of the anchors of the Burlington-South Burlington metropolitan area....
.
Vermont Teddy Bear CompanyThe Vermont Teddy Bear Company is one of the largest producers of teddy bears and the largest seller of teddy bears by mail order and Internet. The company handcrafts each of its teddy bears and produces almost 500,000 teddy bears each year...
whose founder started on a cart on a Burlington street, is now a publicly traded company that ships custom teddy bears worldwide.
Burlington is also the birthplace of the ice cream enterprise
Ben & Jerry'sBen & Jerry's is a division of the British-Dutch Unilever conglomerate that manufactures ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet, and ice cream novelty products, manufactured by Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings, Inc., headquartered in South Burlington, Vermont, United States, with the main factory in...
, founded in 1978 in a renovated gas station. It is now headquartered in South Burlington.
General DynamicsGeneral Dynamics Corporation is a U.S. defense conglomerate formed by mergers and divestitures, and as of 2008 it is the fifth largest defense contractor in the world. The company has changed markedly in the post-Cold War era of defense consolidation. The company has four main business segments:...
Armament and Technical Products division employs 450 workers locally. A solely owned subsidiary, the division is based here.
Retailing
The Church Street Marketplace, a four-block pedestrian mall in the heart of the city, is the site of festivals throughout the year. Events such as the
South End Art HopThe South End Art Hop, also known as the Art Hop, and Burlington Art Hop, is an annual event presented by the South End Arts and Business Association of Burlington, Vermont....
and public galleries such as
The Firehouse GalleryThe Firehouse Gallery was originally built as the Ethan Allen Firehouse on Church Street, Burlington, Vermont in 1889. In 1927 the Burlington Police Department took over the building for 40 years. It is now owned by the non-profit Burlington City Arts Association.This five story building represents...
and
Pine Street Art WorksPine Street Art Works is a privately owned art gallery and store, in Burlington, Vermont, showing 20th and 21st century painting and photography, as well 20th century posters, chromolithographs and assorted works on paper....
, provide a forum for the visual arts. The
American Planning AssociationThe American Planning Association is a professional organization representing the field of city and regional planning in the United States. The APA was formed in 1978 when two separate professional planning organizations, the American Institute of Planners and the American Society of Planning...
named the Marketplace one of America's "Great Public Spaces" for 2008.
Real estate
In 2008, vacancy rates for office space reached 4.5%, high for the city but low compared to the surrounding suburbs.
Social services
The
HowardCenterThe HowardCenter of Vermont provides human services to the state. The headquarters are in Burlington, Vermont.There is a drug or alcohol rehabilitation center with a primary focus on substance abuse treatment. The treatment center provides residential short-term treatment care.There are special...
, headquartered here, provides social services to state residents.
Government
Burlington has a
city council-mayor form of governmentThe Mayor-Council government system, sometimes called the Mayor-Commission government system, is one of two variations of government used for the most part in modern representative municipal governments in the United States. It is also used in some other countries...
.
DemocratsThe Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. It is the oldest political party in continuous operation in the United States and it is one of the oldest parties in the world. In the U.S...
and the
Progressive PartyThe Vermont Progressive Party is an American political party. It was founded in 1999 and is active only in the U.S. state of Vermont. In terms of the dominant two parties in the United States, it enjoys support from "traditional liberal" Democrats and working class Republicans.-History:The Vermont...
make up the majority of the council.
Bob KissBob Kiss is a Vermont politician and Mayor of Burlington, Vermont. Kiss was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from January 2001 until he stepped down to assume office as mayor of Burlington, following his election to that office on March 7, 2006...
, the current mayor, is a Progressive who was elected in 2006. The City Council has fourteen seats, which are currently occupied by seven
DemocratsThe Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. It is the oldest political party in continuous operation in the United States and it is one of the oldest parties in the world. In the U.S...
, three
ProgressivesThe Vermont Progressive Party is an American political party. It was founded in 1999 and is active only in the U.S. state of Vermont. In terms of the dominant two parties in the United States, it enjoys support from "traditional liberal" Democrats and working class Republicans.-History:The Vermont...
, two
RepublicansThe Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP, despite being the younger of the two major parties. In the U.S...
, and two
IndependentsIn politics, an independent is a politician who is not affiliated with any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do not feel that any major party addresses...
.
Peter ClavellePeter A. Clavelle is a prominent Vermont politician and former mayor of Burlington. He was first elected mayor in 1989, serving seven terms...
, Burlington's longest serving mayor, held that office from 1989 to 1993, and again from 1995 to 2006.
The large transient student population votes in local, as well as state and national elections, resulting in a considerable impact on local elections. The city signed up 2,527 new voters in the six weeks from September 1, 2008. This is the highest number for that time frame in nine years or longer.
The city was ranked "average" nationally in political involvement in 2008.
As a non-profit institution, The University of Vermont pays no real estate taxes, though like many other schools, it does make an annual payment in lieu of taxes. In 2007, the college agreed to raise this from $456,006 to $912,011 in 2010 plus a "public works" supplement rising from $180,040 to $191,004 over the same time frame.
The city maintains three parks on Lake Champlain. One is free, while the other two have parking fees.
The city owns the local television cable. In 2008, cable management tried to drop Al-Jazeera from the lineup. This was successfully thwarted by protesters and the station was, in 2009, one of three "small cable operators" in the nation to carry this channel.
Like many Vermont municipalities, Burlington owns its own power company, Burlington Electric Department. In 2009, the department announced that it would purchase 40% of the 40 MG
SheffieldSheffield is a town in Caledonia County, Vermont, United States. The population was 727 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 32.8 square miles , of which, 32.6 square miles of it is land and 0.2 square miles of it ...
wind-generated electricity when it becomes available.
In 2009,
Moody'sMoody's Corporation is the holding company for Moody's Investors Service which performs financial research and analysis on commercial and government entities. The company also ranks the credit-worthiness of borrowers using a standardized ratings scale. The company has a 40% share in the world...
confirmed the city's bond rating at AA3, "high" quality, the second best rank.
Health
Burlington is the home of
Fletcher Allen Health CareFletcher Allen Health Care, together with its partners at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, is Vermont's academic medical center. Its mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves by integrating patient care,...
, a
tertiary referral hospitaldifferent from primary hospital A tertiary hospital, tertiary referral center or tertiary care center is a term without a formal definition which in the United States generally refers to:...
for Vermont and northern New York State, Level I Trauma Center, and teaching hospital.
In 2006, Burlington was rated the ninth-best city to live in. The criteria were health, quality of life, and fitness. In 2007, it was rated 11th out of 100, for auto safety. The criteria were observing speed limits, accident infrequency, and seatbelt use. In 2008 it was ranked second out of 100 for "greenest driving."
Criteria included gasoline consumption, and air quality. In 2009, Children's Health Magazine rated the city, out of 100, as the best in the country to raise a family. Criteria included crime and safety, education and health.
In 2008, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that Burlington is tops among U.S. metropolitan areas by having the largest proportion of people – 92 percent – who say they are in good or great health. The report went on to rate it best in exercise and lowest in obesity, diabetes, and other measures of ill health.
Public schools
The budget for 2009-10 is $49.9 million. The increase in FY 2009 was a voter approved 9.9% above the prior year. The percentage increase was above the state average. This amount was exceeded by $750,000.
In 2008, about 26% of city 3,600 students were minorities. This contrasts with the state where 96% of the population was white.
- Burlington High School
Burlington High School may refer to:* Burlington High School, in Burlington, Iowa* Burlington High School, the only high school in the USD 244 school district in Burlington, Kansas...
- Barnes Elementary
- Edmunds Middle School
- Hunt Middle School
- Flynn Elementary
- Champlain Elementary School
- C. P. Smith Elementary
- Wheeler Elementary
Colleges
In this
college townA college town or university town is a community which is dominated by its university population...
are located The University of Vermont (UVM),
Burlington CollegeBurlington College is a private liberal arts college located in Burlington, Vermont. The goals of the college are to engage the student body in activities promoting social and community involvement on a local and international scale, while also providing traditional university level education...
, and
Champlain CollegeChamplain College is a private, coeducational college located in Burlington, Vermont. It offers professionally focused programs that incorporate an interdisciplinary core curriculum. In addition to its main campus, the College maintains study-abroad campuses in Montreal and Dublin, a satellite...
, as well as a
Community College of VermontThe Community College of Vermont is a two year college founded in 1970 with locations in 12 sites in the state of Vermont. The college is a part of the Vermont State Colleges, a consortium of Vermont's five public colleges governed by a common board of trustees, chancellor, and Council of...
campus.
Religion
The
episcopal seeAn episcopal see is, in the original sense, the official seat of a bishop. This seat, which is also referred to as the bishop's cathedra, is placed in the bishop's principal church, which is therefore called the bishop's cathedral...
for the
Roman Catholic Diocese of BurlingtonThe Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington is a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the New England region of the United States, comprising of the entire state of Vermont...
is in Burlington. There are also synagogues; (
OrthodoxOrthodox Judaism is a formulation of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmudic texts and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim.Orthodox...
-
Chabad HouseA Chabad house is a centre for disseminating Orthodox Judaism by the Chabad movement. Chabad Houses are controlled by the local Shliach- emissary to a certain place by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, who founded all Chabad Houses...
,
ConservativeConservative Judaism is a modern stream of Judaism that arose out of intellectual currents in Germany in the mid-19th century and took institutional form in the United States in the early 1900s.The principles of Conservative Judaism include:* A deliberately non-fundamentalist teaching of Jewish...
- Ohavi Zedek Synagogue).
Culture and landmarks
Burlington has the largest public library in Vermont, the Carnegie Building of the Fletcher Free Library. In 2002, it had a budget of over $1 million, circulated more books, had more visitors, and had more computers, than any other library. Unlike most libraries in Vermont, it is publicly owned. The
buildingCarnegie libraries are libraries which were built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. More than 2,500 Carnegie libraries were built, including some belonging to public and university library systems...
was originally endowed by
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie was a Scottish industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur, and a major philanthropist....
. It is on the
National Register of Historic Places.
The Burlington waterfront along the shore of
Lake ChamplainLake Champlain is a natural, freshwater lake in North America, located mainly within the borders of the United States but partially situated across the Canada – United States border in the Canadian province of Quebec.The New York portion of the Champlain Valley includes the eastern portions of...
has bench swings and paths for walking and biking. It provides a place to view the Adirondacks.
ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science CenterECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center, formerly the Lake Champlain Basin Science Center, is located on the Burlington waterfront in northern Vermont. It is home to more than 70 species of fish, amphibians, invertebrates, and reptiles, major traveling exhibitions, and the multimedia Awesome Forces...
, housed in Vermont's first
Leadership in Energy and Environmental DesignThe Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council , provides a suite of standards for environmentally sustainable construction...
Certified Green Building, is located at the waterfront and harbors over seventy species of fish, amphibians, invertebrates, and reptiles.
Dragon boatA dragon boat is a very long and narrow canoe-style human-powered boat. It is now used in the team paddling sport of dragon boat racing which originated in China over 2000 years ago...
races to benefit charity have been held in Lake Champlain in August since 2006. In 2009, there were approximately 2,000 participants on 86 teams.
There has been an annual
First NightFirst Night is an outdoor artistic and cultural celebration on New Year's Eve, taking place from afternoon until midnight. Since it happens on New Year's Eve, First Night celebrations are actually held on the last night of the old year. The real first night occurs on New Year's Day...
community celebration of the arts on New Year's Eve since 1982. Burlington was the fourth city to embrace this concept.
Local music
The city has, over the years, supported a number of local bands as various "scenes" waxed and waned, and has even launched a handful of national acts. The most famous of these is
PhishPhish is an American rock band noted for its musical improvisation, extended jams, exploration of music across genres, and devoted fan base. Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983, the band's four members performed together for over 20 years until an official breakup in...
, which originated at The University of Vermont circa 1983.
Other acts with ties to the city include
StrangefolkStrangefolk is a rock-oriented jamband originally from Burlington, VT. Since forming in 1991, they have released five studio albums, two live albums and one live concert DVD...
,
The Essex GreenThe Essex Green are an indie rock band from Brooklyn, NY. The band is primarily composed of songwriters Jeff Baron, Sasha Bell and Chris Ziter, and specialize in a classic sound inspired by 1960s–1970s pop and folk in the tradition of bands like The Left Banke and Fairport Convention.-History:The...
,
RAQRAQ are a psychedelic, progressive rock quartet from Burlington, VT. They are a part of the jam band scene.-History:The group formed in 2000 with original keyboard player Marc Scortino and released their first studio effort "Shed Tech" a year later. In 2002 Scortino left the band and was replaced...
,
James KochalkaJames Kochalka is an American comic book artist and writer, and rock musician. His comics are noted for their blending of the real and the surreal...
, The
Jazz Mandolin ProjectThe Jazz Mandolin Project is a jazz trio from Burlington, Vermont, led by mandolinist Jamie Masefield. The project was formed in 1993 through a gig every month at a coffee house in Vermont known as The Last Elm Cafe. The only concrete member of the band is Jamie Masefield, although the group has...
,
Pork TornadoPork Tornado is a band founded in 1997 by Phish drummer Jon Fishman, Dan Archer , Joe Moore , Aaron Hersey , and Phil Abair ....
,
Anais MitchellAnaïs Mitchell is a singer-songwriter based in Vermont.- History :Anais Mitchell grew up on a farm in Addison County, Vermont. In addition to farming, her father is a writer who teaches in the English department of Middlebury College, and her mother works in various social services...
,
Greg DavisGreg Davis is an American electronic musician who has recorded albums drawing from a wide variety of sources, including guitar, field recording, various world / ethnic / traditional instruments, percussion, and voice, all delicately processed through digital manipulation...
,
KoushikKoushik Ghosh is a Canadian electronic musician from Dundas, Ontario. Koushik is signed to Stones Throw Records and has released a collection of singles and EPs from 2001-2005 on that label, Be With , and the debut full length, Out my Window...
,
Grace Potter and the NocturnalsGrace Potter and the Nocturnals is a Vermont-based band that has recently gained national attention with its newest album,This Is Somewhere. The band blends funky blues, soul and rock from the sixties and early seventies....
,
DispatchDispatch was an American indie/roots folk jam band formed at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. They were active from 1996 to 2002, and have come together three times for reunion concerts, first in 2004, again in 2007, and a third time in 2009. Dispatch experimented with a variety of...
, and
KT TunstallKate Victoria Tunstall better known as KT Tunstall is a singer-songwriter and guitarist. She broke into the public eye with a live solo performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later... with Jools Holland...
.
Newspapers and other publications
Burlington is served by the
- Burlington Free Press newspaper which is delivered throughout Vermont
- Seven Days
Seven Days is an alternative weekly newspaper that is distributed every Wednesday in Vermont. Seven Days is published by Da Capo Publishing, Inc., and owned by Pamela Polston and Paula Routly. It is distributed free of charge throughout the following areas: Burlington, Middlebury, Montpelier,...
, a free weekly newspaper, delivered in bulk to pickup points in the Burlington metropolitan area, emphasizing arts and culture
- Vermont Business Magazine
- Events :Vermont Business Magazine hosts several events throughout the year honoring Vermont Businesses. The events include, The Deane C. Davis Outstanding Vermont Business of the Year Award, The Best Places To Work Awards, The Vermont Centennial Business Awards, The Keybank/Vermont Business...
Radio
- WOKO
WOKO is a radio station broadcasting a Country music format. Licensed to Burlington, Vermont, USA, the station serves the Burlington-Plattsburgh area...
– 98.9 FM; 100 kW
- WIZN
WIZN is a radio station located in Burlington, Vermont. The station broadcasts a classic rock format on 106.7 FM, branded as The Wizard.-External links:*...
– 106.7 FM
- WEZF
WEZF is an English-language American radio station located in Burlington, Vermont. The station has an adult contemporary music format, playing music from the late 1960s thru now....
– 92.9 FM
- WRUV
WRUV is a radio station broadcasting an alternative rock format. Licensed to Burlington, Vermont, USA, the station is currently owned by The University of Vermont.-History:...
– 90.1 FM
- WCLX
WCLX a radio station licensed to Westport, New York, USA, is no longer serving the Burlington, VT region. The station,now off the air, is owned by Westport Broadcasting...
– 102.9 FM
- WWMP - 103.3 FM
- WXXX
WXXX is a U.S. radio station based in Colchester, Vermont, and licensed in South Burlington. On air and in advertisements the station is known as "95 Triple X." The primary format of the station is Top 40.-History:...
- 95.5 FM
Television
The Burlington area is served by four network television stations. They include
WFFFWFFF-TV is the FOX-affiliated television station for the state of Vermont, except Bennington and Windham Counties, and the North Country of New York State that is licensed to Burlington. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 43 from a transmitter on Mount Mansfield,...
channel 44 (
FoxThe Fox Broadcasting Company , commonly referred to as Fox , is an American television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, from 2004 to 2009 Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the 18–49 demographic...
), The CW network, on
WFFF's digital subchannelWFFF-DT2 is the CW-affiliated television station for the state of Vermont, except Bennington and Windham Counties, and the North Country of New York State. The station is a second digital subchannel of FOX affiliate WFFF-TV which is owned by Smith Media, LLC...
44-2,
WVNYWVNY is the ABC-affiliated television station for the state of Vermont, except Bennington and Windham Counties, and the North Country of New York State that is licensed to Burlington. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 13 from a transmitter on Mount Mansfield, Vermont's...
channel 22 (
ABCThe American Broadcasting Company is an American television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. It first broadcast on television in 1948...
),
WPTZWPTZ is the NBC-affiliated television station for northern Vermont and the North Country of New York State that is licensed to North Pole. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 14 from a transmitter on Mount Mansfield, Vermont's highest peak. Owned by Hearst Television, the...
channel 5 (
NBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...
), and
WCAXWCAX-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the state of Vermont, except Bennington and Windham Counties, as well as the North Country of New York State that is licensed to Burlington. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 22 from a transmitter on Mount Mansfield,...
channel 3 (
CBSCBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American television network, one of television's original "big three", which also include NBC and ABC. Like NBC, CBS started out as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System...
). WCAX, WFFF, and WPTZ operate news departments. WCAX is the only Burlington based news channel, while WPTZ is based in
Plattsburgh, New YorkPlattsburgh is a city in and county seat of Clinton County, New York, United States. The population was 18,816 at the 2000 census.The city of Plattsburgh is located entirely within the original boundaries of the town of Plattsburgh and is in the North Country region of the northeastern part of the...
with a bureau in nearby
ColchesterColchester is a town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. The population was 16,986 at the 2000 census. It is the fourth-largest municipality and second-largest town in Vermont by population.-Geography:...
.
These cable channels are Burlington based:
VCAMVermont Community Access Media is Chittenden County, Vermont's public access television station and digital media resource center, seen in the Burlington area on and Comcast channel 15...
-Channel 15, RETN-Channel 16, and Channel 17.
Sports
| Club |
Sport |
League |
Stadium |
| Vermont Lake Monsters The Vermont Lake Monsters are a minor league baseball team in the Short-Season A classification New York - Penn League, affiliated with the Washington Nationals. The team plays its home games at Centennial Field on the University of Vermont campus in Burlington, Vermont...
|
BaseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond...
|
Minor league baseballMinor league baseball is a hierarchy of professional baseball leagues in North America that compete at levels below that of Major League Baseball. All of the minor leagues are operated as independent businesses, and many are members of Minor League Baseball, an umbrella organization for leagues...
; Class A (Short Season) |
Centennial Field Centennial Field is the name of two sports facilities at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont. One is used for baseball and the other is now primarily used for men's and women's soccer after once also serving as the home field for the school's football and lacrosse teams...
|
Vermont Frost HeavesThe Vermont Frost Heaves are a professional basketball team in Vermont, United States that currently plays in the Premier Basketball League. The formation of the team was announced in December, 2005 by owner Alexander Wolff, a Cornwall, Vermont resident and writer for Sports Illustrated. The...
(shared with Barre) |
BasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of 5 players try to score points against one another by placing a ball through a 10 foot high hoop under organized rules...
|
Premier Basketball League The Premier Basketball League is a professional men's basketball league that began play in January 2008. The league had ten teams for the 2008 season and thirteen teams for the 2009 season...
|
Memorial Auditorium
Barre AuditoriumBarre Auditorium is a 1,856-seat multi-purpose arena in Barre, Vermont. It was built in 1939. It is one of the homes of the Vermont Frost Heaves of the Premier Basketball League, along with the Burlington Memorial Auditorium...
|
Vermont Lake MonstersThe Vermont Lake Monsters are a minor league baseball team in the Short-Season A classification New York - Penn League, affiliated with the Washington Nationals. The team plays its home games at Centennial Field on the University of Vermont campus in Burlington, Vermont...
, a Class A minor league baseball team, were formerly the Vermont Expos baseball club of the New York – Penn League. It plays on the campus of UVM at Centennial Field.
The professional basketball franchise, the
Vermont Frost HeavesThe Vermont Frost Heaves are a professional basketball team in Vermont, United States that currently plays in the Premier Basketball League. The formation of the team was announced in December, 2005 by owner Alexander Wolff, a Cornwall, Vermont resident and writer for Sports Illustrated. The...
, plays half of their season in the city. The team, which is part of the American Basketball Association (ABA), splits their inaugural 2005-2006 season home games between Burlington and Barre. The Frost Heaves, owned by
Sports IllustratedSports Illustrated is an American sports magazine owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men, 19% of the adult males in the United States. It was the first magazine with circulation over one...
writer
Alexander WolffAlexander Wolff is a writer for Sports Illustrated and owner of the Vermont Frost Heaves of the Premier Basketball League .He has written several books about basketball, among them Big Game, Small World , a look at basketball around the world...
, play their Burlington games at the Memorial Auditorium, on South Union Street, at the corner of Main.
There is also a
rugby unionRugby union is a full contact team sport, a form of football which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. It is played with an oval-shaped ball, outdoors on a level field, usually with a grass surface, 100 m...
team, the Burlington RFC.
Daniel W. Fish, a former member of the Air Force's Wings of Blue, was the first person to obtain a permit and skydive in the city of Burlington.
The
Vermont City MarathonThe Vermont City Marathon is an annual marathon in the city of Burlington, Vermont, in the United States. Held since May 28, 1989 on Memorial Day weekend, the race attracts people from the New England area....
has drawn thousands of competitors annually.
A local
Golden GlovesFor the honor in Major League Baseball, see Gold Glove.The Golden Gloves is the name given to annual competitions for amateur boxing in the United States...
boxingBoxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds. There are three ways to win...
tournament has been held annually since 1946.
Transportation
Burlington is the central focus of the Chittenden County Transportation Authority, providing bus service to and from the surrounding communities (and the shopping districts of
South BurlingtonSouth Burlington is a city in Chittenden County, Vermont, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 15,814. It is one of the anchors of the Burlington-South Burlington metropolitan area....
and
WillistonWilliston is a town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. The population was 7,650 at the 2000 census. It is one of the fastest-growing towns in the state, and during the last decade, has developed as a major retail center for the Burlington area as well as much of central and northern...
). Burlington is also the headquarters of the
Lake Champlain Transportation CompanyThe Lake Champlain Transportation Company provides car and passenger ferry service at three points on Lake Champlain in the United States....
with seasonal service provided between Burlington's King Street ferry terminal and
Port Kent, New YorkPort Kent is a train station in Port Kent, New York served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. Port Kent Station is an opened platformed shelter and a seasonal stop used exclusively for passengers taking the ferry to Burlington, Vermont....
.
Air carriers at
Burlington International AirportBurlington International Airport is a joint civil-military public airport in South Burlington, Vermont. The airport is three miles east of the central business district of Burlington, Vermont's largest city. BTV is owned by the City of Burlington....
provide the area with commercial service to major regional hubs and international airports. Although carriers do not offer scheduled commercial flights to destinations outside the United States, there is a Customs Port of Entry for unscheduled flights.
GreyhoundGreyhound Lines, Inc., based in Dallas, Texas, USA, is an intercity common carrier of passengers by bus serving over 3,700 destinations in the United States and Canada, operating under the well-known logo of a leaping greyhound. It was founded in Hibbing, Minnesota, USA, in 1914 and incorporated...
provides intercity bus service from a depot south of downtown to other communities in Vermont as well as to
Boston'sBoston is the capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England"...
South Station and
Logan International Airport
, while
AmtrakThe National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971 to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States. "Amtrak" is a blend of the words "America" and "track". It is headquartered at Union Station...
rail service stops in the nearby village of
Essex JunctionEssex Junction is a village in the town of Essex in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. The population was 8,591 at the 2000 census. It was incorporated on November 15, 1892....
.
Major routes
Burlington is served by one major Interstate highway (along with its spur route into the southern part of the city), and is at the junction of two U.S. highways. Several Vermont state highways also provide routes into and through the Burlington area.
-
Interstate 89Interstate 89 is an interstate highway in the New England region of the United States travelling between Concord, New Hampshire and Highgate Springs, Vermont. As with all odd-numbered primary interstates, I-89 is signed as a north-south highway...
-
Interstate 189Interstate 189 is an auxiliary Interstate Highway in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. The highway extends for from Interstate 89 exit 13 in South Burlington to U.S. Route 7 just inside the Burlington city limits...
-
U.S. Route 2U.S. Route 2 is an east-west U.S. Highway spanning across the northern continental United States. U.S. 2 consists of two segments connected by roadways in southern Canada. Unlike some routes, which are disconnected into segments because of encroaching Interstate Highways, the two portions of U.S...
-
U.S. Route 7U.S. Route 7 is a north-south United States highway in western New England that runs for from Norwalk, Connecticut to Highgate, Vermont. The highway's northern terminus is at Interstate 89 near the village of Highgate Springs, Vermont, immediately south of the Canadian border...
Sister cities
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Vermont
Burlington is
twinnedSister cities, also known as town twinning, is an agreement between towns, cities and even counties in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties...
with:
| Bethlehem Bethlehem is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank, approximately south of Jerusalem, with a population of about 30,000 people. It is the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate of the Palestinian National Authority and a hub of Palestinian culture and tourism...
, PalestinePalestine is a conventional name used, among others, to describe a geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands.As a geographical term, Palestine can also refer to 'ancient Palestine,' an area...
Ełk, PolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe . Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
YaroslavlYaroslavl is a city in Russia, the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, located north-east of Moscow. The historical part of the city, a World Heritage Site, is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Kotorosl Rivers. Population:...
, RussiaRussia , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia . It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
AradArad is a city in the South District of Israel. It is located on the border of the Negev and Judean Deserts, west of the Dead Sea and east of the city Beersheba. The city is home to a diverse population of 23,300, including Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews, both secular and religious, Bedouins and...
, IsraelIsrael officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its...
|
Puerto Cabezas Puerto Cabezas is a municipality in the North Atlantic Coast department of Nicaragua....
, NicaraguaNicaragua officially the Republic of Nicaragua , is a representative democratic republic. It is the largest country in Central America with an area of 130,373 km 2. The country is bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The Pacific Ocean lies to the west of...
BethlehemBethlehem is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank, approximately south of Jerusalem, with a population of about 30,000 people. It is the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate of the Palestinian National Authority and a hub of Palestinian culture and tourism...
, Palestinian territoriesThe Palestinian territories are composed of two discontiguous regions, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, whose final status has yet to be determined. The territories, which were originally contained within the British Mandate of Palestine, were captured and occupied by Jordan and by Egypt in the...
Moss Point, MississippiMoss Point is a city, north of Pascagoula, in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area...
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Sites of interest
- Ethan Allen Homestead Museum
- Chittenden County Historical Society & Museum
- Echo Lake Aquarium & Science Center
- Fleming Museum, University of Vermont
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
- The 1885 building of Ohavi Zedek
Ohavi Zedek is a Conservative synagogue in Burlington, Vermont.-History:Founded in 1885, it is the oldest congregation in Vermont. The synagogue's original building, a Gothic Revival, brick structure erected in 1885, is among the oldest synagogue buildings still standing in the United States...
one of the oldest synagogue buildingThe designation of the oldest synagogue in the United States requires careful use of definitions, and must be divided into two parts, the oldest in the sense of oldest surviving building, and the oldest in the sense of oldest congregation...
s still standing in the United States.
Notable residents
- Warren Austin
Warren Robinson Austin was an American politician and statesman; among other roles, he served as Senator from Vermont....
, senator from Vermont and ambassador to the United Nations
- Ralph Abraham
Ralph H. Abraham is an American mathematician. He has been a member of the mathematics department at the University of California, Santa Cruz since 1968.- Life and work :...
, mathematician
- Marc Awodey
Marc Awodey is an American contemporary artist and poet. His poetry collections include "Telegrams from the Psych Ward" , "New York; A Haibun Journey" . and "Senryu and Nudes" from Kasini House Books. He's also author of the collection of essays "Art and Machine: 95 theses" discussing his...
, artist and writer
- Ben Bagley
Ben Bagley was an American musical theatre and record producer.Bagley moved to New York City during the early 1950s, and at age 22 he produced his first hit, Shoestring Revue, starring Beatrice Arthur and Chita Rivera , and with songs by Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, June Carroll, and...
, musical theater producer and innovator
- Orson Bean
Orson Bean is an American film, television, and stage actor. He appeared frequently on televised game shows in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, but is perhaps best known as a long-time panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth....
, film and stage actor
- Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in 2006 she became a best-selling and critically acclaimed author with her autobiographical graphic memoir Fun Home.-Biography:Alison Bechdel was born in Lock Haven,...
, cartoonist best known for the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out ForDykes to Watch Out For is a comic strip by Alison Bechdel. The strip, which began in 1983, was one of the earliest ongoing representations of lesbians in popular culture and has been called "as important to new generations of lesbians as landmark novels like Rita Mae Brown’s Rubyfruit Jungle and...
- Morgan Benoit
Morgan Benoit is an American actor and martial artist.Morgan has been involved in the Chinese martial arts for 15 years. Following his passion, at age 18 he moved to China to study at the Beijing Sports University where he mastered Changquan Kung Fu...
, actor and martial artist
- Harry Blanchard
Harry Blanchard was an American racecar driver.His only Grand Prix appearance came at the wheel of a Porsche RSK Formula 2 car in the first US Grand Prix at Sebring in 1959. He finished seventh and last, four laps behind the winner Bruce McLaren...
, Formula One driver who raced for the Porsche team
- Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin was an American libertarian socialist, political and social philosopher, environmentalist/conservationist, atheist, speaker, and writer. For much of his life he called himself an anarchist, although as early as 1995 he privately renounced his identification with the anarchist...
, anarchist philosopher and environmentalistAn environmentalist supports any goal of the environmental movement, an information-based perspective on appropriate use of technology to prevent adverse effects on the environment...
- Ted Bundy
Theodore Robert "Ted" Bundy, born Theodore Robert Cowell , was an American serial killer active between 1973 and 1978. He twice escaped from county jails before his final apprehension in February 1978. After more than a decade of vigorous denials, he eventually confessed to over 30 murders,...
, serial killer
- Peter Clavelle
Peter A. Clavelle is a prominent Vermont politician and former mayor of Burlington. He was first elected mayor in 1989, serving seven terms...
, former mayor of Burlington
- Grace Coolidge
Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge was the wife of Calvin Coolidge and First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929.-Biography:...
, wife of Calvin CoolidgeJohn Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state. His actions during the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the...
and First Lady
- Howard Dean
Howard Brush Dean III is an American politician and physician from the U.S. state of Vermont. He served six terms as Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination...
, chairman of the Democratic Party, former presidential candidate in 2004, and former governor of Vermont
- Judith Steinberg Dean
Judith Steinberg Dean, M.D., is a physician from Burlington, Vermont. She is the wife of Howard Dean, the Democratic former Governor of Vermont and past chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
, physician and First Lady of Vermont
- John Dewey
John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been very influential. Dewey, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophy of pragmatism and of functional psychology...
, philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer
- John Chipman Farrar
John Chipman Farrar was an American writer and publisher.He was born in Burlington, Vermont. After serving in World War I, as an aviation inspector, he graduated in 1919 from Yale University and was a member of the Skull and Bones...
, writer and publisher
- Kevin McKenzie
Kevin McKenzie is an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and Artistic Director of American Ballet Theatre since 1991...
, artistic director American Ballet Theatre
- Paul Hackett, football coach
- Henry Hitchcock
Henry Hitchcock was the first Attorney General of Alabama, having been elected by the Alabama General Assembly in December 1819 in its initial session...
, first attorney general of Alabama
- Philip H. Hoff
Philip Henderson Hoff is an American politician from the U.S. state of Vermont where he served as Governor of Vermont from 1963 to 1969...
, former governor of Vermont
- Oliver O. Howard
Oliver Otis Howard was a career United States Army officer and a Union General in the American Civil War. He was a corps commander noted for suffering two humiliating defeats, at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, but he recovered from the setbacks while posted in the Western Theater, and served...
, general in the Civil WarThe American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several other names, was a civil war in the United States of America. Eleven Southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America...
- Eugene Hütz
Eugene Hütz is the Ukrainian-born singer and composer of the critically-acclaimed New York Gypsy punk rock band Gogol Bordello. He is also a DJ and an actor....
, actor and lead singer of Gogol BordelloGogol Bordello is a multi-ethnic Gypsy punk band from the Lower East Side of New York City that formed in 1999 and is known for its theatrical stage shows. Much of the band's sound is inspired by Gypsy music, as its core members are immigrants from Eastern Europe...
- Horatio Nelson Jackson
Horatio Nelson Jackson was the first person to drive an automobile across the United States, in an early example of rallying ....
, first person to drive an automobile across the United States
- James Kochalka
James Kochalka is an American comic book artist and writer, and rock musician. His comics are noted for their blending of the real and the surreal...
, cartoonist, singer/songwriter
- Madeleine M. Kunin
Madeleine May Kunin is a Swiss-American diplomat and politician. She was the Governor of Vermont from 1985 until 1991, as a member of the Democratic Party. She also served as United States Ambassador to Switzerland from 1996 to 1999. She was Vermont's first and, to date, only female governor as...
, diplomat and governor of Vermont
- Patrick Leahy
Patrick Joseph Leahy is the senior United States Senator from Vermont. He is a member of the Democratic Party, the first and only Democratic United States Senator in Vermont's history, the current chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and has the distinction of being the first and only...
, senator and current chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee
- Members of the rock band Phish
Phish is an American rock band noted for its musical improvisation, extended jams, exploration of music across genres, and devoted fan base. Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983, the band's four members performed together for over 20 years until an official breakup in...
:
- Jon Fishman
Jon Fishman is an American drummer best known for his work with the band Phish. He is credited with co-writing 18 Phish originals, 7 of them as a solo credit ....
, drummer
- Mike Gordon
Mike Gordon is a bass player and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish. Gordon is also an accomplished banjo player, and is proficient at piano, guitar, harmonica and percussion...
, bassist
- Page McConnell
Page Samuel McConnell is an American musician most noted for his work with the rock band Phish.-Background:His father, Dr. Jack B. McConnell worked at McNeil Laboratories and helped to develop Tylenol...
, keyboardist
- Henry T. Mayo
Henry Thomas Mayo was an admiral of the United States Navy.Mayo was born in Burlington, Vermont, 8 December 1856. Upon graduation from the United States Naval Academy in 1876 he experienced a variety of naval duties including coastal survey...
, four-star admiral. Born in the city.
- Henry Farnham Perkins (1877-1956) was an American
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
educator, zoologist and eugenicist.
- Ross Powers
Ross Powers is a world champion halfpipe snowboarder from Peru, Vermont. His home mountain, though regularly advertised as Stratton Mountain Resort is actually Bromley Mountain where his mother still works. He led the U.S. sweep in the 2002 Winter Olympics men's halfpipe competition, one day...
, Olympic gold medalist
- William Hepburn Russell
William Hepburn Russell is often credited as one of the founders of the Pony Express.Russell was born in Burlington, Vermont, and died in Palmyra, Missouri....
, founder of the Pony Express
- Bernie Sanders
Bernard "Bernie" Sanders is the junior United States Senator from Vermont, elected on November 7, 2006. Before becoming Senator, Sanders represented Vermont's at-large district in the United States House of Representatives for 16 years.Sanders is a self-described democratic socialist, but because...
, senator from Vermont
- Truman Seymour
Truman Seymour was an a career soldier and an accomplished painter. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of brigadier general. He commanded the Union troops at the Battle of Olustee, the largest Civil War battle fought in Florida.-Early life and...
, Union ArmyThe Union Army was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S. Army, the Northern Army and the National Army...
general
- Birdie Tebbetts
George Robert "Birdie" Tebbetts was an American catcher, manager, scout and front office executive in Major League Baseball.Born in Burlington, Vermont, and raised in Nashua, New Hampshire...
, baseball player
- Len Whitehouse
Leonard Joseph Whitehouse is a retired Major League Baseball player who pitched in relief for the Texas Rangers in and for the Minnesota Twins from to . He bats and throws left-handed...
, baseball player and assistant coach of Burlington High School's varsity baseball team
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