Including a ira allen saw the potential of Burlington Bay as a court sitting. Lake champlain flows north a Lake Champlain flows into the st. Lawrence which gives at burlington, interestingly enough, even though it is an inland place, access to the ocean. Saw that ands became interested. The area did not take off despite the attempts by ira importantake this an place by putting the university here, making it the shire town of Chittenden County with the courts and so on. 1820d not take off until three whitney Champlain Canal was finished which connected the southern and of Lake Champlain to the hudson river. It opened up all of those markets to the south of vermont. One historian has said that before 1823, Lake Champlain tipped north. After 1823, it tipped south. Burlington grew tremendously in the 1820s. Having said that it grew tremendously, the population in 1830, 7 years after the canal only 3000 but in 1800 it had only been about 1000. So it was about a prosperous it was a prosperou