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From Lake Monsters to Ice Cream: The Many Facets of Burlington
The following is an excerpt of an article that appeared in the AIC 2006 issue of MOVE magazine. To order a back copy of this issue or to subscribe contact AAMVA at (703) 522-4200.
By Lauren DeAngelis
Downtown Burlington, Vermont sits on a hillside overlooking Lake Champlain, the sixth-largest lake in the United States. The lake is rumored to be home to “Champ,” a mythical monster similar to Scotland’s Loch Ness.
And just like that rumor—or truth, depending on if you’ve seen the monster or not—Burlington is multi-faceted and full of surprises. Now the largest city in Vermont, it has become the core of one of the nation’s smaller metropolitan areas. As of 2003, the metropolitan area—which consists of the cities of Burlington and South Burlington—had an estimated population of 203, 503.
Chartered in 1763, the town was named for the Earl of Burlington. It was settled in the 1770s when brothers Ethan and Ira Allen built a fort at the falls of the 90-mile-long Winooski River, a tributary of Lake Champlain.
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