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The Upper Valley in western NH (where I'm from) also kind of seceded to Vermont for a short while:

https://www.flowofhistory.org/the-rebellion-in-western-new-h...

Another weird border situation played out in the "Oblong" where a botched Colonial land survey created a kind of no-man's land between New York State, Connecticut, and the southwest corner of Massachusetts. How it got resolved related to an utterly bizarre incident in the 1850s.

https://anchor.fm/lostmass/episodes/The-Lost-Corner-AKA-Hell...

Michigan and Ohio once went to war over Toledo.

Little known fact: the bullet holes from that skirmish is where we get the phrase “Holy Toledo”.

Each tried to make the other take it....

That's so interesting. Killington is the site of the largest ski resort in the East (by most measures) and an awesome vacation spot. It is completely in the center of Vermont, almost the geographic center. Moving to New Hampshire is a hilarious idea, one expressly forbidden -- states cannot be non-contiguous like that, land areas can only be separated by water (see Michigan).

Good old Act 60.