John Deere

Historical marker location:

78 Main Street, Middlebury, Vermont

( Marker is on Main Street, 0.1 miles south of Mill Street, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1968

Inventor of "The Plow that Broke the Plains".

Vermont was the first state to introduce civil unions: In 2000, Vermont became the first state to introduce civil unions for same-sex couples. The law granted same-sex couples many of the same legal rights and protections as married couples.