Canoe Expedition Superlatives

1. We paddled 176 total miles and over 102,390 strokes.

2. Otter Creek - Longest river within Vermont. - Only VT river to run North along its entire length.

3. Pittsford - 1st U.S. Patent issued for a potash furnace in 1791 to Israel Keith.

4. Brandon - 1st Patent for Electric Motor issued in 1834 to Davenport.

5. Lake Champlain - Contains the deepest spot below sea level in the United States.

6. Charlotte - Original site of Charlotte the whale, a beluga, our state fossil.

7. Shelburne Shipyard - The oldest continuously active shipyard in the U.S.

8. Lone Rock Point - Thrust fault - the only one that can be seen above ground in the U.S.

9. Grand Isle - Hyde Log Cabin - said to be the oldest log cabin in the United Sates.

10. Isle LaMotte - World's oldest coral reef!
                            -site of first Catholic Mass celebrated in VT (1665, St. Anne's Shrine)
                            - Vermont's oldest settlement (1665)

11. Alburg Dunes - Location of Champlain Beach Grass which is found nowhere else in the world! (well.....4 sites, all here).
                            - longest south facing beach in Vermont

12. Vergennes - smallest city in the United States of America
                        - oldest city in Vermont

13. Mount Philo - Vermont's first State Park, established in 1924 (CCC work)
                            - Vermont had the highest per capita use of CCC workers in the nation!

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