[4] A record exists from 1860, showing that the "Artillery Company" of the 3rd Regiment mustered for annual drill on June 5.

[citation needed] In 2004, what was billed as the final concert of the band Phish was held in Coventry on August 14–15.

Even so, with 65,000 attendees Coventry's augmented population was the largest in the state at that time, outranking Burlington, Vermont, which had around 39,000 people in the 2000 census.

[6] The Phish concert was a two-day event (August 14–15, 2004), held at the Newport State Airport.

People began arriving early Friday morning and shortly after the roads became congested.

Instead of driving home, they parked their cars on the median of Interstate 91, choosing to walk the rest of the way to the concert.

[7] Dozens of pairs of shoes, sandals and boots were lost due to the thick mud.

The Black River flows an east-northeasterly course through the central part of the town until it joins the South Bay of Lake Memphremagog in Newport.

For approximately the last 4.7 miles (7.6 km), the river is part of the state's South Bay Wildlife Management Area.

[10] South Bay Wildlife Management Area is located mostly in Coventry but also in the adjacent town of Newport at the southern part of Lake Memphremagog.

This is a large wetland and floodplain forest, red maple and white cedar swamp, along the Black River.

Under Vermont law, this is a municipality; the committee is the equivalent of a town select board.