Vermont museum celebrating 200 years since War of 1812

... Otter Creek -- in what is now the city of Vergennes -- was a beehive of activity as thousands of shipwrights from New York and elsewhere spent the winter building a U.S. Navy fleet. Those vessels would later meet the British on Lake Champlain in the ...

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