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Vermont Division for Historic Preservation

The Division for Historic Preservation is the public agency designated to be the advocate for historic and prehistoric properties in Vermont. The state has a rich heritage of historic resources, ranging from 10,000-year-old Native American sites to rambling 19th century farm complexes, to railroad-spawned villages of the 1870s, to gleaming streamlined diners built to serve auto-borne patrons of the 1930s. Each of these buildings, structures, and sites is important for what it can tell us about our history.

Prehistoric archaeological sites supply information on the lives of the original inhabitants of Vermont, who have no written records to speak for them. Standing buildings and structures may be important because of their significant architectural design and fine materials and craftsmanship or because they illustrate an important aspect of history. Often, however, they also tell the stories of everyday life that were never written down.

Historic structures, through their locations, architectural features, and historical associations, testify to patterns of Vermont life in the late 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries and serve as the visible reminders of the occupations, activities, philosophies, and priorities of Vermonters who came before us. It is the role of the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation to protect and preserve these links to our collective past.

    


Chimney Point State Historic Site Visitors Center at Mount Independence State Historic Site Contemporary mask of Odzioso, by Abenaki artist Gerard Rancourt Tsonakwa, on display at Chimney Point State Historic Site Bennington Battle Monument Revolutionary War Reenactment Hyde Log Cabin Fisher Covered Railroad Bridge Old Constitution House State Historic Site Senator Justin Morrill State Historic Site President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site

The small state of Vermont boasts a rich and rewarding historical heritage. Today, that history is well preserved in an exceptional collection of
state-owned historic sites stretching the length of the state. Ranging from precontact encampments, to pivotal Revolutionary War sites, to the private homesteads of U.S. presidents, Vermont's historic sites chronicle the development of a state, its people and the nation around it.

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The Vermont History Trek is a youth and family state-wide adventure challenge exploring the State-Owned Historic Sites

 
 
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