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Half Moon Pond State Park, also known as Half Moon State Park, is a wooded campground state park located within the 3,576-acre Bomoseen State Park in the town of Hubbardton, Vermont. [1] The campsites are located on Half Moon Pond.
The Vergennes Residential Historic District encompasses a neighborhood south of downtown Vergennes, Vermont that encapsulates an architectural cross-section of the city's 19th and early 20th-century residential history. Set on Water, Maple, and Green Streets, it includes houses built and occupied by a diversity of the city's economic classes ...
Name Town County Approximate area Year established acres ha Alburg Dunes State Park: Alburgh: Grand Isle: 625 253 1996 Allis State Park: Brookfield: Orange
The city of Vergennes was first settled in the 1760s, but only began significant growth in the 1780s, when it became one of Vermont's early industrial centers. The city is located at a bend in Otter Creek where there is a 37-foot (11 m) falls that could be harnessed for water power, and it also benefited by its location as the crossing point of ...
Vergennes was settled in 1766 by Donald MacIntosh. It was established as a city in 1788, [1] the only one in Vermont not to have been first chartered as a town or independent village. Instead, intersecting portions of the pre-existing towns of New Haven, Panton, and Ferrisburg at the Otter Creek Falls were combined to form Vergennes. [1]
Vergennes, situated on the first falls, 7 miles (11 km) upstream from the outlet of Otter Creek, was one of the first industrial hubs on the river, with a sawmill erected in 1764. [4] In 1814, a fleet was hastily, but effectively, assembled here by American forces at Vergennes, to participate in the Battle of Plattsburg. [5]
The General Samuel Strong House stands on the north side of West Main Street, west of downtown Vergennes and just north of the road's junction with Panton Road. It is fronted by a shallow semicircular drive, and is screened from the road by trees. It is a two-story L-shaped wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and clapboard siding.
Button Bay State Park is a 253-acre state park in Ferrisburgh, Vermont on the shore of Lake Champlain. [ 1 ] Activities includes boating, swimming, camping, fishing, hiking, picnicking, wildlife watching, water sports and winter sports.