Vermont firsts and other claims to fame

First victory: capture of Fort Ticonderoga, 1775

Firsts in 1777 Vermont Constitution

First state after original thirteen states to join United States, 1791

First in continental United States to ban billboards

More authentic covered bridges per square mile

Only state capital without a McDonald's restaurant

Only state to be selected as a World's Greatest Destination

Youngest Medal of Honor recipient

Largest family mortality in the Civil War

Most northern action in the Civil War

First and only admiral of the Navy

First to give intelligence before Lexington

First private military college

First college solely for students with learning disabilities

First federally funded public colleges

First school for teachers

First African American to get a college degree

First commercial marble quarry

Largest underground marble quarry

Largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry

Largest marble exhibit in the world

Oldest mail-order company

Oldest long-distance hiking trail

First non-Englishman to win golfing's British Amateur Championship

First American alpine skier to win two gold medals in same Olympics

First commercial ski rope tow

Oldest continuously operated golf course

First luxury resort in Adirondacks

First documented international hockey game.

First and only Carthusian Monastery in the United States

First two presidents of the Mormon Church

First ordained African American pastor

First wrongful murder conviction

Only state with lay "side judges"

First shared customs building

Sole author of the U.S. Thirteenth Amendment

First state to legislate same-sex civil unions

First state to legislate absentee voting

First to prohibit sit-down strikes

Firsts for the Calvin Coolidge family

Largest collection of Grandma Moses paintings

First and only poet to win four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry

First state-funded orchestra

Largest zipper

First person to have a private U.S. post office

First American woman to win Nobel Prize for Literature

First documented American horse breed

First commercially successful steel plow

Largest maple sugar producer

Most cheesemakers per capita

First canal used continuously for industrial purposes

First coast-to-coast road trip

First globe factory

First successful fast mail delivery by horse

First rejection of a major WPA project

First safety elevator

Oldest son of Abraham Lincoln

First Boy Scout troop

First nonsectarian organization for girls

First Rotary Club

First microphotograph of ice crystals

First platform scale

Oldest flour company

Healthiest state in the United States

First monthly Social Security check

Lowest unemployment in United States, July 2019

Last state to get a Target and Walmart

Shortest time being a "Great Lake."