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Stowe, Vermont
Summary
Stowe is a town in Lamoille County, Vermont, United States. The population was 5,223 at the 2020 census. The town lies on Vermont Routes 108 and 100. It is nicknamed "The Ski Capital of the East" and is home to Stowe Mountain Resort, a ski facility with terrain on Mount Mansfield and Spruce Peak.
Stowe Village Historic District
The indigenous people who lived in the area now called Vermont were primarily Abenaki, who spoke Algonquian. They were forced aside by strategies of displacement after primarily British settlers flooded into the area after the French and Indian War. They were the original inhabitants of Stowe.
Stowe was chartered on June 8, 1763, by Royal Governor Benning Wentworth of the Province of New Hampshire. Grantor Benning Wentworth named Glastonbury Mountain in 1761 for Glastonbury, Somerset, in England. Glastonbury was called by the local people as "the site where four winds meet," according to Vermont folklorist Joe Citro. This allegation appears to be baseless, part of the accumulation of mythology surrounding a location where odd events and inexplicable disappearances have long been reported. There are no surviving names from the original language, which was most likely Mahican, an Algonquian dialect akin to Abenaki in this case.
Vermont did not become a U.S. state until 28 years later, in 1791. As such, despite Stowe being established as a town in 1763, it was in 1793 that more settlers arrived, two years after Vermont joined the original thirteen of the United States of America. By the turn of the nineteenth century, the majority of Stowe's property had been sold. The town's population had risen to 316 at this time. Stowe's early years were dominated by the farm and lumber industries. Over 75 percent of the land in Stowe and most of Vermont used to be open terrain cleared by lumber production and used for agriculture, particularly sheep farming. In those days, up to 8,000 sheep grazed the Stowe hills and valleys.
Stowe's agricultural fortunes changed alongside those of the rest of New England.
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