Talk:Montpelier, Vermont

message: Montpelier does not qualify as a metropolitan area according to the US Census. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.30.55.40 (talk) 05:35, 23 September 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: If the city is named after Montpellier, why does it only have one L, and why is it pronounced differently? 
-JM — Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.20.13.41 (talk) 00:24, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Have you ever read the Constitution? They spelled "choose" c-h-u-s-e, for instance. Spelling was generally more flexible then, and certainly, the spelling of a foreign word might lend itself to an altered spelling.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.26.60.159 (talk) 21:10, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology and name 

message: If one remembers correctly, Vermont was settled by the French before the British colonists settled there. It should follow that there are a couple towns in the state with French names. Montpelier and Calais are spelled like the French towns, but they have been heavily anglicized over the years. Locals really do call Montpelier "Mont-peel-iar" and Calais "Cal-lis", not the French pronunciations.
Twitchel 18:10, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Montpelier and Calais, Vermont

message: The "Monthly Normal and Record High and Low Temperatures" chart is interfering with the rest of the article, please fix this issue.
- Ahmed — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.249.152.208 (talk) 03:09, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Formatting

message: The following was removed for lack of a reference. Can anyone help? "Montpelier is the least-populous state capital in the United States, with a population of 7,954 (July 2006 est.)" The list of fifty capitals was a bit too long to look through! Really needs stand-alone reference. Student7 (talk) 12:32, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, this is pretty uncontroversially true.  The next largest state capital is Pierre, with 14,000.--Loodog (talk) 14:29, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Smallest capital

message: I would suggest deleting the current lead photo and replacing it with steepled one from transportation. The capitol is too obscure to see. Steeple is pleasant. Student7 (talk) 23:15, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: picture

message: I included this statistic in the climate section, but failed to source it. I have since corrected that. First ever Wiki edit...thank you!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.127.136.196 (talk) 03:15, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Average Annual Snowfall

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message: According to the short history "Montpelier, Vermont", by Hiram A. Huse (whom I suspect is from the town), which appears to be from the mid-1870s, the first settler of the town was a man named Joel Frizzel, and his red-haired Quebecois wife Mary ("a little red-haired Frenchwoman from Canada"), who built a house "opposite the mouth of the Dog River", or "in the Southeast corner of town on the bank of the river" (same thing). This is roughly where the Interstate overpasses and the Green Mountain Cemetary are today. It says "the grant of Montpelier was followed by a formal charter issued by Gov. Thomas Chittenden, August 14th, 1781. It continued as a town on paper only for five years, when Joel Frizzel, a trapper and a hunter, with his wifer Mary, a red-haired Frenchwoman from Canada, began living on the southwest corner of the town near the bank of the river. Frizzel has not been given until lately the credit of being the real first white settler; but he remained here at least until January 11th, 1794, when he finally deeded away the 100 acre lot he lived on". Apparently he had been there about a year when Col Davis arrived, and he assisted with surveying the town. Previously it talked about how the raiding party of 300 Indians traveled through what would later be the city of Montpelier, and up the Stevens branch while on the way to raid and burn Royalton in 1780  (Zadock Steele captured, etc), they camped "at the mouth of the Dog River, on the Berlin side, opposite the spot where nearly 6 years later, the first white settler in Montpleier located", which would put Frizzel right within town limits (if that mattered much), roughly where the Interstate ovepass and the Green Mountain Cemetary are now (I suspect more to the west; the land is poor where the cemetary is). And of course there is a whole lot of other stuff that is left out of this article as well.
Idumea47b (talk) 01:44, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  First settler 

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thread_title:  A Commons file used in this page has been nominated for speedy deletion 

message: Montpelier was founded by Timothy Bigelow Mbigelow (talk) 23:04, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Montpelier Founder is not Davis 

message: As of 11/19/20, the climate data is incorrect and inconsistent with the cited source. I have fixed the issue several times in the past only to have it reverted to this incorrect data.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.209.39.248 (talk) 15:11, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Climate

message: If Montpelier was built on a floodplain, as mentioned in this PBS video, why does the text of the current version of this article not mention the word "floodplain" even a single time? 98.123.38.211 (talk) 05:07, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location within a [[floodplain]]