Vermont
Became a state: March 4, 1791 (14th state)
Area: 9,620 sq mi (ranked 45th in size)
Population: 608,827 (ranked 49th in population)
Capital: Mount Pelier
Largest City: Burlington (40,000)
Bordering States: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York
Origin of state name: The name Vermont comes from the French words for green mountain, "mont vert." French explorer Samuel de Champlain called the Green Mountains of Vermont "Verd Mont" (green mountain) on his 1647 map.
State Nickname: The Green MountainState
State Bird: Hermit Thrush
State Flower: Red Clover
State Tree: Sugar Maple
Trivia: Ben & Jerry's is an American ice cream company, 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 Waterbury. It is best known as an ice cream brand, founded in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont. In 1977 lifelong friends Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield completed a correspondence course on ice cream making from Pennsylvania State University's Creamery. On May 5, 1978, with a $12,000 investment the pair opened an ice cream parlor in a renovated gas station in downtown Burlington, Vermont. In 1979, they marked their anniversary by holding the first-ever free cone day, now a nationwide annual celebration.
Abbreviation: VT
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