The world: historical and actual . of 1755-58, by pioneers fromNew Hampshire. Ina few years there weresettlements from NewYork, also from Mas-sachusetts. From 1777until admitted to theUnion, Vermont maybe said to have beenentirely people were de-voted patriots. EthanAllen and Seth War-ner with their GreenMountain Boys, dis-tinguished themselvesat Ticonderoga. Thebattle of Benningtonalso attests the bravery of the Vermouters. Thestate is almost wholly given to agriculture ; man-ufacturing being little cultivated. The GreenMountains constitute its backbone. The statehas two colle
The world: historical and actual . of 1755-58, by pioneers fromNew Hampshire. Ina few years there weresettlements from NewYork, also from Mas-sachusetts. From 1777until admitted to theUnion, Vermont maybe said to have beenentirely people were de-voted patriots. EthanAllen and Seth War-ner with their GreenMountain Boys, dis-tinguished themselvesat Ticonderoga. Thebattle of Benningtonalso attests the bravery of the Vermouters. Thestate is almost wholly given to agriculture ; man-ufacturing being little cultivated. The GreenMountains constitute its backbone. The statehas two colleges of some standing among the higherinstitutions of learning, the University of Vermontat Burlington, and Middlebury College, , St. Albans and St. Johnsbury are the 7p srr STATES AND TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 619 At- principal towns of the state, and Alontpelier the cap-ital. It has the honor of being represented in theSenate of the United States by Geo. F. was the birthplace of the poet VIRGINIA. If no specific mention were made in this connec-tion of Virginia, or the Old Dominion, it would of breaking the political solidity of the South. WhenRichmond ceased to be the capital of the Confed-eracy, and Lee gave up his sword, Virginia sub-sided. On the 17th of April, 1861, it seceded, andit did not regain its foothold in the Union as an in-dependent, self-governing state until January, is the state capital and the chief city ofthe state, with Norfolk and Petersburg next. Asearly as 1693, the college of William and Mary wasfounded; Washington and Lee University in 1749;Hampden .Sidney in 1775, and University of Vir-ginia in L825. The state has always taken com-mendable interest in education. The plantationswere so large and the population so scattered as torender impracticable the common school system
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