The Heritage Winooski Mill Museum is located in the historic Champlain Mill and is part of the Winooski Falls Mill District. Exhibits on display explain how the industrial textile mills in the 19th and early 20th century shaped the landscape and development of Winooski’s diverse community.

Our guided riverfront walk points out historical industrial mill sites and evidence of waterpower usage. We’ll also visit the Winooski One Hydroelectric Station site, which provides power to Burlington today. At the Hydro Station platform, visitors are rewarded with scenic views of the dam and Salmon Hole, an important Abenaki fishing hole before the advent of the mills. 

More information about the museum, including visiting hours, can be found at www.themillmuseum.org.

This National Historic Site is one of the longest-continuously farmed sites in Vermont, and was the last home of Vermont founder Ethan Allen. The oldest human artifacts from this site go back 6,000 years ago, to Indigenous settlement along the banks of the Winooski River. The earliest farming here dates back to Abenaki peoples around 600 years ago. The first English colonists started farming here in 1773, just before the start of the American Revolution. After the war, Revolutionary War leader Ethan Allen and his family moved here in 1787, and Allen died here in 1789. The historic Allen House (built 1785) is the last remaining building in Vermont associated with its most famous founder. The Allen House was continuously occupied by farmers working the land until the 1970s, when this site was saved by locals for its environmental and historic importance. This site is still farmed today by nonprofit community garden groups. The Ethan Allen Homestead is owned by the Winooski Valley Park District, who partners with the nonprofit Ethan Allen Homestead Museum for historic preservation and public education. The Museum is open to the public May-October and offers guided tours, an historic garden, exhibits, videos, and special events.

Please see the website for more information: www.ethanallenhomestead.org