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Burlington, Vermont. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Chittenden. Associated ZIP codes: 05401, 05402, 05405, 05406, 05408.
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Explore our editor’s picks for must-do events in Vermont this week, including the Howl’ween Dog Costume Contest along Burlington’s Church Street Market...
Twenty four Vermont high school football teams have one destination on their mind two weeks from now – Burlington High School
A jury has found Jason Eaton guilty of attempted murder after the 2023 shooting of three college students in Burlington's North End.
A jury convicted Jason Eaton of attempted murder in the shootings of three Palestinian college students who were walking near his Burlington, VT, home.
An attempted murder trial has begun for a man accused of shooting three Palestinian college students in a Burlington, Vermont neighborhood in 2023.
MIDDLEBURY — Wayman Butterfield Norton was born March 15, 1937, in Burlington, Vt., and grew up in Bristol with his parents, Alta and Reuben, and his young...
BURLINGTON — In a matchup of former CVU standouts, Vermont’s Jack Richburg outdueled Worcester’s Stephen Rickert as the Lake Monsters defeated the Brav...
BURLINGTON — More than 1,000 pounds of scientific equipment hung over the side of a research vessel in Lake Champlain, where two Vermont high school studen...
VERGENNES — It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Steven J. Shores, who passed away July 7, 2026, at the age of 65. Steve was born Ap...
This week on The Sports Rapport, we're joined in-studio once again by Mike Popovitch and Tyson Foster from the Vermont Green FC podcast United in Green. Plus...
Today, a storm survey team from the National Weather Service Burlington has been dispatched to the Woodstock, Vermont, area to examine storm damage from...
Episode 769: Their parents fled the Armenian genocide and raised a family in a historic brick building by the Burlington-Winooski Bridge.
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Burlington is in Chittenden County, Vermont.
Region: Vermont
05401, 05402, 05405, 05406, 05408
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Burlington's land lay in the territory disputed between New Hampshire and New York. George II had set New Hampshire's western border twenty miles east of the Hudson, but George III moved New York's border to the Connecticut River. New York courts ruled against settlers holding New Hampshire titles, and Governor Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire kept selling land there anyway. On June 7, 1763, he granted Burlington to Samuel Willis and 63 others. Settlers began clearing land and built two or three log huts in the summer of 1775, but the Revolution delayed permanent settlement until after the war, and the first recorded town meeting was held on March 19, 1787.
The origin of the name is disputed. Wentworth often named towns for wealthy men, and the two candidates are the Burling family of New York, who held large grants in nearby towns, some made the same day as Burlington's, though none appears among its grantees, and Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, who had died a decade before the grant. Burlington, Iowa, was named for it by a settler from Burlington, Vermont. In 1808 the world's first lake-going steamboat was built in Burlington. The War of 1812 was unpopular in Vermont, which had close trade ties with Canada and voted Federalist, and the state provided neither militia nor money, yet at one point the United States stationed 5,000 troops in the town. Sources Wikipedia: Burlington, Vermont
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