The Town of Winooski:

Its name, the Abenaki word for wild onion, is legend. A thriving mill town for more than a century beginning in the 1830s, Winooski - which separated from Colchester in 1922 - is so compact that the late engineer/futurist R. Buckminster Fuller reportedly proposed building a dome over its 795 square-shaped acres. Those acres took a big hit in the infamous floods of 1927 and were transformed again during the urban renewal boom of the 1970s. The old mills along the Winooski River have been converted for shopping and residential uses, as the town's population changed from mostly French Canadian to a more complex mosaic of ethnic identities.