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of Shelburne Museum (see p41).
ETHAN ALLEN South of town, just into Charlotte,
Vermont folk hero Ethan Allen (1738–89) the Vermont Wildflower Farm has
led a militia called the Green Mountain over 350 species of flowering plants
Boys. He is hailed for rebuffing colonial and trees on the grounds.
governors and British troops alike in a
quest for Vermont’s independence. His Northeast Kingdom
capture of Fort Ticonderoga from British 7
forces in 1775 played a key strategic MAP L2
role early in the American Revolution. “Northeast Kingdom” refers to
Essex, Orleans, and Caledonia
counties in the state’s northeast
Grafton
5 corner – an area sometimes referred
to simply as “The Kingdom.” In
MAP K6 • Plummer’s Sugar
House: 2866 Townshend Rd; 802 843 Vermont cultural shorthand, the
2207; www.plummerssugarhouse. term connotes both a rural, frontier
com • Grafton Village Cheese Co: 533 toughness and an easy familiarity
Townshend Rd; 800 472 3866; www. with the latest developments in the
graftonvillagecheese.com • Old world of avant-garde performance
Tavern: 92 Main St; 802 843 2231 art. With only two large communities,
Wealthy philanthropists saved this St. Johnsbury and Newport, it is one
beautiful village in the 1960s by of the most rural parts of the state.
forming the Windham Foundation to The Northeast Kingdom is known
restore its handsome buildings and above all for skiing, resplendent
revitalize commerce. Visit Plummer’s autumn foliage, and maple syrup.
Sugar House or the Grafton Village
Burlington
Cheese Co., or enjoy a delicious 8
meal at the 200-year-old Old Tavern. MAP J3
Settled shortly before the American
Revolution, Burlington, unlike the rest
of Vermont, takes its identity less from
the Green Mountains than from the
great inland sea of Lake Champlain.
Burlington shipyards turned the
mountain timber into trading vessels.
Visitors can learn about the region’s
history on the Lake Champlain Cruise
(see p60). Blessed with a handsome,
largely 19th-century downtown,
Burlington also enjoys a busy
cultural life as a by-product of the
Verdant pastures of Shelburne Farms presence of the state university.
Shelburne
6 Marketplace, downtown Burlington
MAP J3 • Vermont Wildflower
Farm: 3488 Ethan Allen Hwy,
Charlotte; 802 425 3641; open mid-
May–mid-Sep: 10am–3:30pm Mon–
Fri; www.vermontwildflowerfarm.com
Standing on high banks above Lake
Champlain just south of Burlington,
Shelburne is a village of magnificent
dairy farms, not least among them
the historic spread of Shelburne
Farms (see p111). A locomotive, a
steamship, and buildings crammed
with folk art dot the rolling meadows

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