This document provides an overview of early Vermont history from the 18th century through the early 19th century, touching on topics such as gravestone art, architecture, the creative economy, local artistic expression, furniture making, female education, industrial development, historic preservation, and sharing information about historic Vermont on social media. The document lists chapter titles or topics that would be covered in a longer work about art, culture and social history during the emergence of Vermont as a new state.

1. Reading Places: Art, Architecture & Gravestones in Early Vermont

2. Imagining Vermont

4. In search of 18 th century

6. The Urban Frontier

8. The Creative Economy – in 1800 Frontier ingenuity

10. The Face of Vermont

11. Rocks R Us Art & Mining

13. Local expression in early Vermont architecture

16. Made in Vermont – Early VT furniture

18. Progressive education Female Academies

19. Crucible of the Industrial Age

20. Housing History – Stewards of the Past

21. Places No One Cares About

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