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History & Culture

• Vermont Only
• Vermont Historical Society
• Virtual Vermont
• Vermont Archaeological Society
• Vermont History
• Vermont-L
• Vermont Vacation - official state tourism site

Cemeteries & Gravestone Studies

• Vermont Old Cemetery Association
• Vermont Cemetery Lists
• Hope Cemetery
• Bowman Mausoleum
• Timothy Clark Smith
• VT Tombstone Transcription Project

Highways, Byways & Roadside Attractions

• Roadside America - Vermont
• Catamount Tavern Monument -  the model used was not a catamount, it's a lioness
• Vermont's Covered Bridges
• Morse Farms - oldest maple sugar works
• Old Round Schoolhouse - the only round one room school in the U.S.
• Old Round Church - lots of round buildings up there, eh?
• Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream - in South Burlington
• New England Maple Museum
• The Nature Museum - home of a Vermont mermaid
• The Main Street Museum - lots of weird stuff
• Camp Meade Victory Museum - lots of WWII and Nazi related stuff
• The Dog Chapel - religion has gone to the dogs
• Spider Web Farm - not for arachnophobes
• Queen Connie - King Kong's mate
• World's Tallest File Cabinet - in Burlington, VT

Legend & Folklore

• St. Albans Raid - northern most Civil War engagement
• Exploding Maple Trees - fact or hoax?

Local Color

• Rotten Sneaker Contest - an actual contest in Montpelier sponsored by the Odor Eaters Company
• Strolling of the Heifers - in Brattleboro
• Bread & Puppet Theater
• Vermont Commons – The Voice of Independence…promoting a free Vermont

People

• Famous People of Vermont
• Ethan Allen
• Hetty Green
• Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley
• James Fisk - the Barnum of Wall Street
• William Miller - he predicted the end of the world three times (none of them happened)
• Joseph Smith, Jr. - born in Sharon, founder of the Mormon Church
• Ann Story
• The Gentleman Burglar of Chester
• Phineas Gage - the man with the hole in his head

Places & Explorations

• A Gazetteer of Vermont Places: Real and Imagined
• Vermont Name Places
• Huntington Gorge - deadliest gorge in state, this paper presents a history of the gorge
• Oliver's Cave - unusual history of a man-made cave 
• Fort Montgomery - aka "Fort Blunder"

Phenomena

• Champ - Vermont's own home-grown monster
• Memphre - possibly Champ's cousin, he lives between Vermont and Quebec (also see Memphre)
• Bennington Triangle - hotspot for UFO activity and human disappearances 
• Pigman - living in the "Devil's Washbowl" area of Northfield

Ghosts & Hauntings

• Vermont Hauntings - courtesy of the Shadowlands
• Emily's Bridge
• Ghosts of Vermont
• The Legend of Boots Berry
• Vermont Ghost Stories
• Just Plain Weird - from Vermonter.com
  

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