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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 789 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city, the See also:capital of See also:Vermont, U.S.A., and the See also:county-seat of See also:Washington county, on the Winooski See also:river, 40 M. (by See also:rail) E.S.E. of See also:Burlington. Pop. (1900), 6266 (952 See also:foreign-See also:born); (191o), 7856. Montpelier is served by the Central Vermont and the Montpelier & See also:Wells River See also:railways. See also:Barre See also:granite is See also:mined extensively in the vicinity, and the city manufactures See also:marble and granite products, See also:flour, See also:lumber, See also:saddlery hardware and See also:wood-working machinery. The See also:principal See also:building is the See also:state See also:house, crowned by a statue of See also:Agriculture by Larkin G. See also:Mead. The state house was first occupied in 1836. It was almost completely destroyed by See also:fire in 1857, and was subsequently rebuilt and enlarged. Other prominent features of the city are the See also:United States See also:government building, the county See also:court house, the Montpelier See also:seminary and the Wood See also:art See also:gallery, a collection consisting principally of paintings by See also:Thomas Waterman Wood (1823-1903), a native of Montpelier. The township of Montpelier, named from the city in See also:France, was granted to a See also:company of sixty proprietors in 1780.

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settlement was made in 1787; and the township was organized in 1791 under a See also:charter of 1781, replaced by another in 1804. In 1805 it was selected as the capital of the state, and in 1808 the legislature met here for the first See also:time. At first the township was a See also:part of See also:Orange county, but in 1810 Washington county was created, and in 1811 Montpelier became the seat of government of the new county. In 1849 See also:East Montpelier was set apart as a See also:separate township, and in 1894 the township of Montpelier was chartered as a city.

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