About Winooski
Winooski, known as the “Onion City,” is a small city on the banks of the Winooski River, bordering Vermont’s largest city of Burlington, and home to roughly 8,000 people.
Winooski was incorporated as a city in 1922, but people have been calling it home for much longer. Members of the Abenaki tribe lived in the area as early as 400 AD, calling it “Winoskitekw,” meaning ‘onion land river,’ for the wild onions that grew along the river. The first colonization came in 1772, led by Ira Allen who was attracted by the potential of the Winooski Falls.
Powered by the Falls, Winooski became a Mill village (then, city) over the next two centuries, with textile mills providing thousands of jobs and meeting the demands of wartime. When the final Mill closed in 1954, the local economy suffered severely. In the decades since, numerous revitalization efforts have made the city what it is today — a vibrant, diverse home for the authentically unconventional.