Burlington, Vermont Burlington, Vermont City of Burlington From top to bottom, going left to right: Burlington horizon viewed from Lake Champlain, ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center, Church Street Marketplace, Ethan Allen Homestead Museum and Historic Site, Old Mill building on the University of Vermont campus, Battery Park, Gutterson Fieldhouse, and Burlington at evening viewed from Oakledge Park.
From top to bottom, going left to right: Burlington horizon viewed from Lake Champlain, ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center, Church Street Marketplace, Ethan Allen Homestead Museum and Historic Site, Old Mill building on the University of Vermont campus, Battery Park, Gutterson Fieldhouse, and Burlington at evening viewed from Oakledge Park.
Official seal of Burlington, Vermont Seal Official logo of Burlington, Vermont Burlington, Vermont is positioned in the US Burlington, Vermont - Burlington, Vermont Burlington is the most crowded city in the U.S.
Enumeration estimate. Burlington is the least crowded city in the U.S.
A county-wide college town, the municipality is home to the University of Vermont (UVM) and Champlain College, a small private college.
Vermont's biggest hospital, the UVM Medical Center, is positioned inside the town/city limits.
In 2015, Burlington became the first town/city in the U.S.
Two theories have been put forward regarding the origin of Burlington's name.
The first is that it was titled after Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, and the second is that the name honors the politically prominent and wealthy Burling family of New York.
See also: Timeline of Burlington, Vermont One of the New Hampshire grants, the territory that was advanced as Burlington was awarded by New Hampshire colonial governor Benning Wentworth on June 7, 1763 to Samuel Willis and 63 others. In the summer of 1775, pioneer began clearing territory and assembled two or three log huts, but the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War delayed permanent settlement until after its conclusion.
Neither Vermont nor other New England states provided militia units or financial support.
Had 5,000 troops stationed in Burlington, outnumbering inhabitants and putting a strain on resources.
In a skirmish on August 2, 1813, British forces from Canada shelled Burlington.
Wharves allowed steamboats to connect freight and travelers with the Rutland & Burlington Railroad and Vermont Central Railroad.
Burlington became a bustling lumbering and manufacturing center and was incorporated as a town/city in 1865.
In 1978, the ice cream enterprise Ben & Jerry's was established in Burlington in a renovated gas station.
Lake Champlain from the Burlington wharves, New York's Adirondack Mountains in the background Burlington Burlington is situated on the easterly shore of Lake Champlain, north of Shelburne Bay.
Burlington has a humid continental climate (Koppen Dfb), with cold winters and very warm, humid summers.
Climate data for Burlington International Airport, Vermont (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1883 present) Burlington, as seen from Lake Champlain in 2010 Burlington is the central focus of Green Mountain Transit (GMT), which provides bus service to and from encircling municipalities.
Greyhound provides intercity bus service from the Burlington International Airport to other communities in Vermont, and to Montreal's Gare d'autocars de Montreal and Boston's South Station and Logan International Airport.
Premier Coach's Vermont Translines also provides intercity bus service between Burlington and Albany, New York along the U.S.
Route 7 corridor in a partnership with Greyhound, also from the Burlington International Airport. Megabus provides non-stop service between Burlington and Boston, and service to New York City by two routes, with intermediate stops in Saratoga Springs, New York, or in Amherst, Massachusetts and Hartford, Connecticut.
Burlington's Union Station was assembled in 1916 by the Central Vermont Railway and the Rutland Railroad.
From the late nineteenth century to 1953, the Rutland Railroad provided traveler service on the Green Mountain Flyer and the Mount Royal from Burlington to Chatham, New York in Columbia County, with connecting service to New York City via the New York Central Railroad.
From 1916, Rutland Railroad service was provided at the new Union Station on the Lake Champlain coastline. From 2000 to 2003, the Champlain Flyer was a commuter service from Burlington south to the town of Charlotte, Vermont.
Since the closure of the Champlain Flyer, Burlington has had no active barns connections.
In January 2013, Vermont governor Peter Shumlin proposed extending the Ethan Allen Express from Rutland, Vermont to Burlington.
The proposal would problematic a county-wide rail corridor connecting Albany (New York), Saratoga Springs (New York), Rutland, and Burlington, which have combined metro populations of around 1.25 million inhabitants. Air carriers at Burlington International Airport (BTV) furnish the region with commercial service to primary county-wide hubs and global airports.
Burlington is served by one primary Interstate highway, along with its spur route into the southern part of the city, and is at the junction of two U.S.
Several Vermont state highways also furnish routes into and through the Burlington area.
I-89.svg Interstate 89 Although it does not directly enter the Burlington town/city limits, I-89 has interchanges in neighboring South Burlington, Winooski, and Colchester that furnish access to downtown.
I-189.svg Interstate 189 I-189 joins I-89 in South Burlington to U.S.
7 at the southern end of Burlington.
Route 2 is the chief east-west route entering Burlington.
Route 7 is the chief north-south route through Burlington.
2 in downtown Burlington, and the two routes run concurrently north to Colchester.
Ellipse sign 127.svg Vermont Route 127 joins downtown and the Old North End with the New North End and the town of Colchester.
Throughout the New North End, VT-127 is a limited-access highway officially titled the Winooski Valley Parkway, though generally known as the "Burlington Beltline".
Burlington is the command posts of the Lake Champlain Transportation Company, a privately held business that offers ferry service for the North Country of New York state and the Champlain Valley region of Vermont.
Summer cyclic service is available from Burlington's King Street Dock to Port Kent, New York.
One line of year-round 24-hour service is provided from the close-by town of Grand Isle, Vermont to Plattsburgh, New York, with another line of everyday service from Charlotte, Vermont to Essex, New York. Burlington's economy centers on education, community services, trade, transportation, and utilities, and some manufacturing.
In 2009, Moody's confirmed the city's bond rating at AA3, "high" character, the second best rank, but in 2010, the city-owned Burlington Telecom cable provider was unable to pay the town/city of Burlington $17 million it owed.
Moody's also downrated the credit rating for Burlington International Airport. The biggest employers in the town/city proper are the University of Vermont Medical Center (formerly Fletcher Allen Health Care) and the University of Vermont, employing 6,823 and 3,137 citizens , in the order given. Other companies in Burlington include the G.S.
Its history dates back to the mid-19th century. General Electric develops software for the healthcare trade in South Burlington at the former command posts of IDX Systems, which it purchased in 2006.
Ben & Jerry's began in 1978 when Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield opened their first ice cream scoop shop in an old gas station in Burlington. Vermont Teddy Bear Company, whose founder started on a cart on a Burlington street, now ships custom teddy bears worldwide. Corporate command posts located in Burlington include Burton Snowboards, Bruegger's, Lake Champlain Chocolates, Rhino Foods, and Seventh Generation Inc. Burlington was fifth in the state in 2007 with $242.2 million. Burlington City Hall (1928) at the intersection of Church Street and Main Street, in 2013 Burlington has a town/city council-mayor form of government. Democrats and the Progressive Party make up the majority of the council.
Senator and 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was the mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989.
Peter Clavelle, Burlington's longest-serving mayor, held the office from 1989 to 1993, and again from 1995 to 2006. The large transient pupil populace votes in local, state, and nationwide elections, resulting in a considerable impact on small-town elections. The town/city signed up 2,527 new voters in the six weeks from September 1, 2008, the highest number for that time frame in over nine years. Willcox of Burlington, who won a competition to receive the commission. The biggest enhance library in Vermont, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Fletcher Free Library had a budget of over $1 million in 2002.
It circulated more books, had more visitors, and had more computers, than any other library in Vermont. In addition to its major services as Burlington's enhance library, it is also a improve center, a cultural resource for newly appeared immigrants to the Burlington area, and the city's only no-charge enhance access computer center.
Like many Vermont municipalities, Burlington owns its own power company, Burlington Electric Department.
Burlington's neighborhoods are generally recognized by residents, but have no legal or political authority.
Downtown: The city's commercial core is north of Maple Street, south of Pearl Street (including all properties along Pearl Street), and west of Willard Street.
Hill Section: Burlington's wealthiest neighborhood is east of U.S.
Route 2 (Main Street), but excludes UVM and University Terrace, while including all of Champlain College. The Hill Section is where the Burlington Country Club is situated.
It is encompassed on this list because its total region is larger than that of most neighborhoods in Burlington.
New North End: Burlington's most crowded neighborhood, a northwest suburban extension of the city, is positioned at all points north of Burlington High School, contains Leddy Park and North Beach, and is west of Vermont Route 127 (the "Burlington Beltline").
Old North End: Burlington's earliest and most densely populated neighborhood is north of all properties along Pearl Street, west of U.S.
Routes 2 and 7, and is inclusive of areas south and east of the former site of Burlington College (but north of Downtown and west of the University District).
Route 7 (Shelburne Street and South Willard Street), it contains the coastline Oakledge Park and is home to the command posts of many of Burlington's nationally known companies like Burton Snowboards and Dealer.com.
Burlington is home to University of Vermont Medical Center, a tertiary referral hospital for Vermont and the North Country of New York, Level I Trauma Center, and teaching hospital.
In 2006, Burlington was rated the ninth-best town/city for men to live in as stated to Men's Health magazine.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that Burlington rates high among U.S.
In 2009, Children's Health Magazine rated Burlington the best town/city in the nation to raise a family. The Howard Center, headquartered in Burlington, provides civil services to state residents, and runs Vermont's first and the area's only methadone maintenance program, the Chittenden Clinic.
Burlington School District operates the city's enhance schools.
Burlington High School In Burlington, pupils have two choices of magnet schools: the Integrated Arts Academy at H.O.
The University of Vermont ("UVM") and Champlain College are positioned in this college town.
The UVM Medical Center is home to one of the ten most selective medical schools in the U.S., the UVM College of Medicine. The Community College of Vermont had a site positioned in Burlington until 2010 when a new building in the contiguous town/city of Winooski was constructed for the college.
Churches in Burlington include the North Avenue Alliance Church, First Baptist Church, First Congregational Church, the Episcopal Cathedral Church of St.
Paul, the First United Methodist Church, Christ Church (Presbyterian), the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception the episcopal see for the Diocese of Burlington and the Co-Cathedral of St.
Joseph, the First Unitarian Universalist Society, the College Street Congregational Church (United Church of Christ), The Burlington Church of Christ, and the non-denominational Church at the Well.
The Howard Mortuary Chapel in Lakeview Cemetery was assembled in 1882 as t to the City of Burlington from Hannah Louisa Howard, a small-town philanthropist.
A indigenous of the city, she was the daughter of John Howard, a prosperous Burlington hotelier.
The chapel's flashing beacon provides a eveningtime landmark for those approaching Burlington from Lake Champlain.
Both of the cathedrals in Burlington the Episcopal Cathedral Church of St.
Paul and the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception are undivided structures assembled after their predecessors were finished by arson fires in 1971 72. The Episcopal Cathedral was instead of in 1973 and was designed by Burlington Associates (now Truex - Collins) in the Brutalist style, while the Roman Catholic Cathedral was assembled in 1974-77 and was designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, with the park-like grounds designed by landscape architect Dan Kiley. Some of Burlington's eminent churches The cathedrals of Burlington Burlington was the fourth town/city to embrace this concept. Burlington's own drag troupe, the House of Le - May, performs a several shows a year, hosts the annual "Winter is a Drag Ball," and raises funds for various charities.
The "South End Art Hop", is an annual event presented by the South End Arts and Business Association. Artists join businesses, artist studios, and arcades, which in turn open their doors to the enhance throughout the post-industrial section of Burlington, known as the "South End".
The town/city has an arts department, Burlington City Arts, which serves many part s including cultural planning, education, showing intact art and hosting cultural affairs at The BCA Center.
Burlington City Arts also runs a program in collaboration with UVM Medical Center, Art from the Heart, where patients have access to art supplies and devoted volunteer time.
Many of Burlington's historic buildings and sites have been recognized by their inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
In addition to 28 buildings, three shipwrecks and the Burlington Breakwater, the town/city encompasses 17 historic districts. Some of Burlington's historic landmarks The South Light of the Burlington Breakwater; although the breakwater is on the NRHP, the light is a replica which replaced the finished original, and is therefore not part of the listing Battery Park, which overlooks the Burlington Waterfront & Lake Champlain town/city to be the most crowded inside its state, Burlington is also home to the shortest "tallest building" in any of the 50 U.S.
The six tallest buildings in Burlington are: 3 Burlington Square 116 ft (35.4 m) 8 1976 Burlington is the media center of northern and central Vermont.
Burlington Free Press, a everyday journal delivered throughout Vermont Seven Days, a no-charge weekly journal delivered in bulk to pickup points throughout the Burlington urbane region and central Vermont, emphasizing arts and culture Major airways broadcasts that are based in Burlington and serve the region: WVPS (Vermont Public Radio) 107.9 FM (news & information), National Public Radio There are four network-affiliated tv stations that serve the greater Burlington area.
Although licensed to Burlington, WCAX is actually based in neighboring South Burlington, while WPTZ is based in Plattsburgh, New York with a news agency in close-by Colchester.
Comcast is the metro area's primary cable tv service provider, although inhabitants inside the Burlington town/city limits are also served by municipally-owned Burlington Telecom.
These cable channels are Burlington based: VCAM-Channel 15, RETN-Channel 16, and Town Meeting TV/CCTV channel 17. The Vermont Lake Monsters of the New York Penn League, a Class A short-season (June to September) minor league baseball team, were formerly called the Vermont Expos.
In 2010, the Lake Monsters ended its 17-year association with the Expos/Nationals and became the Class A partner of the Oakland Athletics of the American League. The Lake Monsters play on the ground of the University of Vermont at Centennial Field.
Burlington has a rich hockey history, and was the locale of the first known global ice hockey match, held between the Montreal Crystals and employees of the Van Ness House, a small-town hotel, amid the 1886 Burlington Winter Carnival.
A experienced basketball franchise, the Vermont Frost Heaves, played half of their season International in the ci The team, which originally was part of the Am - Siseerican Btball Association not to be confused with the 1970s-era primary basketball league of the same name that consolidated with the National Basketball Association moved to the Premier Basketball League in 2008 and split their regular-season home games between Burlington and Barre.
The Frost Heaves, owned by Sports Illustrated writer Alexander Wolff, played their Burlington games at the Memorial Auditorium, on South Union Street, at the corner of Main.
Burlington was a venue site for the 2012 International Ice Hockey Federation Women's World Championship.
Main article: List of citizens from Burlington, Vermont See also: List of twin suburbs and sister metros/cities in Vermont Burlington is twinned with: Canada Burlington, Province of Ontario, Canada Burlington was a recording locale for the films Me, Myself & Irene (2000) and What Lies Beneath (2000).
Official records for Burlington were kept at downtown from December 1883 to 3 June 1943, and at Burlington Int'l since 4 June 1943.
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Burlington was known as the 'Queen City' of Vermont at least as far back as 1848, when the telegraph first appeared in Burlington and the citizens of Troy, New York, addressed their congratulations to 'people of the Queen City.' The title really took hold, though, in June 1865, when the City of Burlington's first mayor, Albert L.
Catlin...stated in one of his early speeches, 'We represent a young city, which may in time be known and prestigious as the Queen City of New England.' Facts about Burlington, Vermont: The 'Queen City' and Its Institutions; Its Drives, Rambles, Views, Places of Interest, and Its Resources.
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