List of U.S. Place Names of French Origin - Vermont

Vermont

  • Vermont (originally Vert Mont, or "Green Mountain")
  • Barre ("Barred")
  • Belmont
  • Calais
  • Grand Isle County ("big island")
  • Isle la Motte
  • Jay Peak (named after John Jay, whose family was of French Huguenot origin)
  • Lake Champlain
  • Lamoille (either for a misspelling of Champlain's intended name of Lake Champlain, or for the French la Moelle, "the marrow")
  • Montpelier (named after Montpellier, France)
  • Orange
  • Orleans County
  • Orleans (named after OrlĂ©ans, France)
  • Vergennes

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Famous quotes containing the word vermont:

    “Anything I can say about New Hampshire
    Will serve almost as well about Vermont,
    Excepting that they differ in their mountains.
    The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight;
    New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “In order to get to East Russet you take the Vermont Central as far as Twitchell’s Falls and change there for Torpid River Junction, where a spur line takes you right into Gormley. At Gormley you are met by a buckboard which takes you back to Torpid River Junction again.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)