The indigenous people who lived in the area now called Vermont were primarily Abenaki, who spoke Algonquian.

They were forced aside by strategies of displacement after primarily British settlers flooded into the area after the French and Indian War.

[5] Stowe was chartered on June 8, 1763, by Royal Governor Benning Wentworth of the Province of New Hampshire.

By the turn of the nineteenth century, the majority of the town’s property had been sold, and its population had risen to 316.

Over 75 percent of the land in Stowe and most of Vermont used to be open terrain cleared by lumber production and used for agriculture, particularly sheep farming.

][citation needed] This move allowed 75 percent of the cleared area to reforest over time.

In 1953, the barn was demolished over fire concern, and several of the original beams were repurposed in the construction of The Whip Bar & Grill.

Stowe had its inaugural Winter Carnival in 1921, including ski jumping, skating, and a variety of other enjoyable activities.

The Civilian Conservation Corps erected camps and began clearing ski tracks on Mt.

Mansfield during the Great Depression, leading to Stowe becoming an early mecca for downhill skiing in the United States.

Stowe is in southern Lamoille County, lying in a broad, fertile valley between Mount Mansfield and other peaks of the Green Mountains to the west, and the Worcester Range to the east.

The village of Stowe sits in the east-central part of the town, along the Little River where it is joined by its West Branch.

The Little River, a tributary of the Winooski, flows southward past the village of Moscow and into Waterbury Reservoir, a large reservoir created by a flood control dam in Waterbury but which extends north into the Stowe town limits.

Vermont Route 108 has its southern terminus in Stowe village and leads northwest through Smugglers Notch 17 miles (27 km) to Jeffersonville in the Lamoille River valley.

During the winter months, the plant hardiness zone is 4a with an average annual extreme minimum air temperature of −32.6 °C (−26.7 °F).

Ice storms and large snowstorms depositing ≥ 12 inches (30 cm) of snow are frequent from late-fall to early-spring.

The Lodge at Spruce Peak has a temperate continental climate (Dc) with warm summers (b), cold winters (o) and year-around precipitation (Dcbo).

During the winter months, the plant hardiness zone is 4b with an average annual extreme minimum air temperature of −30.9 °C (−23.7 °F).

Ice storms and large snowstorms depositing ≥ 30 centimetres (12 in) of snow are somewhat frequent from December through March.

Stowe village has a temperate continental climate (Dc) with warm summers (b), cold winters (o) and year-around precipitation (Dcbo).

During the winter months, the plant hardiness zone is 4a with an average annual extreme minimum air temperature of −25.2 °F (−31.8 °C).

Ice storms and large snowstorms depositing ≥ 12 inches (30 cm) of snow occur once or twice per winter.

The Mount Mansfield Winter Academy is located in Stowe, which has a focus on snow sport athletes.