Editing Lake Champlain (section)

====Post-Revolutionary War period====
[[File:Dutton House Shelburne Museum.jpg|thumb|[[Dutton House (Shelburne, Vermont)|Dutton House]], Shelburne Museum]]
[[File:Stagecoach Inn Shelburne Museum.jpg|thumb|[[Stagecoach Inn (Shelburne, Vermont)|Stagecoach Inn]], Shelburne Museum]]
[[File:Sawmill Shelburne Museum.jpg|thumb|Sawmill, [[Shelburne Museum]]]]
Eager to take back control of Lake Champlain following the end of the Revolutionary War, Americans flocked to settle the [[Champlain Valley]]. Many individuals emigrated from [[Massachusetts]] and other New England colonies, such as [[Dutton House (Shelburne, Vermont)|Salmon Dutton]], a settler of [[Cavendish, Vermont]].<ref name=":7">[[Shelburne Museum]]'s [[Dutton House (Shelburne, Vermont)]]</ref> Dutton emigrated in 1782 and worked as a surveyor, town official and toll-road owner. [[Dutton House (Shelburne, Vermont)|His home]] had a dooryard garden, typical of mid-19th century New England village homes,<ref name=":7" /> and his experience settling in the Champlain Valley depicts the industries and lifestyles surrounding Lake Champlain following the Revolutionary War.

Similar to the experience of Salmon Dutton, former colonial militia Major General [[Hezekiah Barnes]] settled in [[Charlotte, Vermont]], in 1787.<ref name=":8">[[Shelburne Museum]]'s Stagecoach Inn</ref> Following the war, Barnes worked as a road surveyor; he also established an inn and trading post in Charlotte, along the main trade route from Montreal down Lake Champlain. Barnes' stagecoach inn was built in traditional [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] style, with 10 fireplaces, a ballroom on the interior and a wraparound porch on the outside.<ref name=":8" /> In 1800, Continental Army Captain Benjamin Harrington established a distillery business in [[Shelburne, Vermont]], which supplied his nearby inn.<ref>[[Shelburne Museum]]'s Hat and Fragrance Textile Gallery</ref> These individual accounts shed light on the significance of Lake Champlain during the post-Revolutionary War period.