Interesting Facts about Vermont

• In the late 1700s, schoolteacher Justin Morgan developed the Morgan horse, the only breed originating in the United States.
• The Indians were so devoted to the chapel they had built at Swanton that when the French were driven out, the faithful Indians went with them and took the chapel apart, rebuilding it stone by stone at their new home in Canada.
• In the 18th-century dispute between Vermont and New York, the Green Mountain Boys tore the roof from the home of New York supporter Benjamin Spencer. After he took an oath to support Vermont, the "boys" restored his roof.
• Although ridiculed by some as a do-nothing president, Calvin Coolidge had the support of many Vermonters who agreed that government should interfere as little as possible in the affairs of the people.
• James Johns of Huntington printed by hand every copy of every issue of the newspaper he published for 40 years.
• At the Haskell opera house at Derby Line, the audience sits in the United States and the stage is in Canada. According to one account, an American police officer once had to sit in the audience and watch a wanted criminal performing on the stage.