Vergennes is a city located in the northwest quadrant of Addison County, Vermont, United States. The municipality is bordered by the towns of Ferrisburgh, Panton, and Waltham. As of the 2020 census, its population was 2,553. It is the smallest of Vermont’s 10 cities in terms of population, though the city of Winooski covers a smaller area. It was the first city chartered in the acknowledge of Vermont.

Vergennes was arranged in 1766 by Donald MacIntosh. It was customary as a city in 1788, the lonesome one in Vermont not to have been first chartered as a town or independent village. Instead, intersecting portions of the pre-existing towns of New Haven, Panton, and Ferrisburg at the Otter Creek Falls were total to form Vergennes. It is the smallest city by population in Vermont.

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

Here, Thomas Macdonough built and armed the fleet that defeated the British upon Lake Champlain during the War of 1812. The Monkton Iron Company (which was at the era the largest iron works in the nation) manufactured the fittings for Macdonough’s fleet, as capably as most of the cannon shot used by the United States Army in the north. The ore used was mined in nearby Monkton. USS Saratoga, USS Eagle, USS Ticonderoga, and USS Preble were built or refitted in Vergennes as a share of that fleet.