Vermontville is home to the original maple syrup festival in Michigan, held the last full weekend in April.

The Village of Vermontville was organized in 1836 by the Reverend Sylvester Cochrane, a Congregational minister from East Poultney, Vermont and the Union Colony.

Vermontville is home to the original maple syrup festival in Michigan held the last full weekend in April.

The festival was proposed one day during a conversation at a local barber shop in 1940, with the idea of promoting the village.

Currently, all young women in their junior year (grade 11) at Maple Valley Schools are eligible to compete for the title of Vermontville Maple Syrup Festival Queen and her court.

Vermontville contains three public parks: As of the census[10] of 2010, there were 759 people, 291 households, and 199 families residing in the village.

The racial makeup of the village was 97.1% White, 0.8% Native American, 0.3% Asian, and 1.8% from two or more races.

25.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

23.5% were of German, 17.8% English, 15.1% American, 7.8% Dutch and 6.5% Irish ancestry according to Census 2000.

20.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.