All posts tagged "vermont"
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10.7K3MassachusettsWhat the Abenaki Indians Called the Full Moon
Sometime around 1645, William Pynchon wrote down the names given to each full moon by a tribe of Abenaki Indians. Pynchon, an...
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27.8K13Business and LaborHow the Polish Immigrants Came to New England
Before Polish immigrants arrived in New England they had already made it to the Jamestown colony in Virginia as craftsmen. Over the...
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15.8K4Business and LaborThomas Davenport Makes the First Electric Car in America in 1834
Today’s makers of electric cars should tip their hats to Thomas Davenport of Forest Dale in Central Vermont, who made the first...
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5.3K11Politics and MilitaryBetter Late than Never: Seth Warner Saves the American Cause at Bennington
In August of 1777, some New Englanders feared America was losing its Revolutionary War. American forces had surrendered Fort Ticonderoga without a...
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10.5K7Politics and MilitaryHow Ethan Allen Got Married to a Loyalist
Ethan Allen got married to his second wife in a bizarre ceremony after a whirlwind courtship to a woman half his age....
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11.8K5bostonWas Bundling in Winter Really Safer Than a Sofa in Summer?
The practice of bundling probably caused New England’s gentry more embarrassment than any other local folk custom. City slickers and the upper...
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