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About Vergennes, Vermont 
Addison County
*Area, Population and Density rankings above refer to Vergennes' relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.
Pronunciation: ver JENZ The only one of Vermont's cities never to have been first chartered as a town or independant village. It is the third oldest city in the US (only Hartford and New Haven, Connecticut are older). It is named for Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes. Reluctant to to make any overt moves that might involve her in another war with England, France agreed to aid the colonists behind the scenes, principally through the considerable efforts of Benjamin Franklin. At the direction of Louis XVI, Gravier established a fictional company through which the Americans received nearly 80% of their military supplies. It was also Gravier who negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris that formally brought the Revolutionary War to a close. Here, Thomas MacDonough built and armed the fleet that would defeat the British on Lake Champlain. The Monkton Iron Company (which was at the time the largest iron works in the colonies) manufactured the fittings for MacDonough's fleet, as well as most of the cannon shot used by the army in the north. The ore used was mined in nearby Monkton.
Material excerpted or adapted from Esther Munroe Swift's
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Contact Info Emergency Services (Statewide): 911
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Churches, Ministries, Charitables Assemblies of God : AG Christian Center 802-8773903 |
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Schools Addison Northwest Supervisory Union 802-877-3332 |
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This is a basic geographic reference, intended to show relative location of adjacent towns. Directional accuracy is limited to 16 compass points. There isn't even the slightest suggestion that one can necessarily travel directly from one town to the next (as in "You can't get there from here").
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