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Vergennes is a city in the northwest quadrant of Addison County, Vermont, and it had a population of 2,553 at the 2020 census, making it the smallest of Vermont's 10 cities by population and the only city in Addison County.

Vergennes was settled in 1766 by Donald MacIntosh and was established as a city in 1788, the first city chartered in Vermont and the only one in the state never first chartered as a town or independent village, formed instead from intersecting portions of New Haven, Panton, and Ferrisburgh at the Otter Creek Falls.

The city is named for Frenchman Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, who greatly aided the rebel colonial effort in the American Revolutionary War.

During the War of 1812, Thomas Macdonough built and armed the fleet in Vergennes that defeated the British on Lake Champlain, and the USS Saratoga, USS Eagle, USS Ticonderoga, and USS Preble were built or refitted there, while the Monkton Iron Company made the fittings and most of the cannon shot used by the United States Army in the north.

Otter Creek flows north through the city, with a 37-foot waterfall in the middle of town and a large basin that occasionally floods.

Vergennes covers 2.56 square miles, of which 2.48 square miles is land, sits at an elevation of 135 feet, uses ZIP code 05491, and is nicknamed the Little City on the Falls.

At the 2020 census, Vergennes had 1,134 households and 1,194 housing units, and its median age was 43.7 years.

Vergennes had 201 residents in 1790, grew to 2,741 in 2000, and recorded 2,553 at the 2020 census.

Collins Aerospace, formerly UTC Aerospace, BF Goodrich Aerospace, and Simmonds Precision, is the major employer in the community.

The Vergennes Opera House hosts weekly community events with bands, singers, politicians, and theater groups, and the Bixby Memorial Free Library hosts a book club, writing workshops, a children's story hour, and a bridge club.