Editing Warren, Vermont (section)

==History==

[[Image:Main Street, Looking North, Warren, VT.jpg|thumb|left|Main Street {{circa|1910}}]]
Granted on November 9, 1780, Warren was chartered on October 20, 1789, to John Throop and 67 others. It was named for Dr. [[Joseph Warren]], [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] [[Patriot (American Revolution)|patriot]]. The first settlers, Samuel Lard and Seth Leavitt, arrived in 1797. Grain and lumber mills were built on the [[Mad River (Vermont)|Mad River]] to grind grain or manufacture lumber and [[Clapboard (architecture)|clapboard]]s.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=OcoMAAAAYAAJ&dq=coolidge%20mansfield%20history%20description%20new%20england%201859&pg=PA931 Austin J. Coolidge & John B. Mansfield, ''A History and Description of New England;'' Boston, Massachusetts 1859]</ref> On the fertile [[valley|intervales]], farmers grew hay. By 1839, when the town's population was 766, cattle and about 4000 sheep grazed the hills.<ref>[http://newenglandtowns.org/vermont/warren Hayward's ''New England Gazetteer of 1839]</ref> Milk and [[maple syrup]] were important commodity goods.

In the late 1930s, the area began to be developed for recreational skiing.The first ski tow was erected in the Mad River Valley by the Warren Outing Club. 

In 1958, Damon Gadd and Jack Murphy founded Sugarbush Ski Area on the northeast side of [[Lincoln Peak (Vermont)|Lincoln Peak]]. They had a three-seat [[gondola lift|gondola]] installed; at that time it was the nation's longest lift. It was manufactured in [[Italy]].<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/19980211041155/http://www.central-vt.com/towns/history/HstWarr.htm Katherine Carleton Hartshorn, ''Warren Town History'']}}</ref> Eventually this developed into what is today [[Sugarbush Resort]], a tourist destination.