EVERGREEN MUNICIPAL TRUST /DE/, 497, 1999-09-20

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                          SUPPLEMENT TO THE PROSPECTUS
                                       OF
                      EVERGREEN STATE MUNICIPAL BOND FUNDS


I.       Evergreen Connecticut Municipal Bond Fund, Evergreen New Jersey
         Municipal Bond Fund, Evergreen Pennsylvania Municipal Bond Fund
         (together "the Funds")

         Effective  September 2, 1999,  the section of the  prospectus  entitled
"THE FUNDS' PORTFOLIO MANAGERS" is supplemented to reflect the following change:

         Jocelyn  Thayer is the Funds'  portfolio  manager.  From  November 1998
through  August 1999,  Ms. Thayer  co-managed  each Fund. Ms. Thayer has managed
New Jersey  Municipal Bond Fund since  November 1992 and   Connecticut Municipal
Bond Fund and Pennsylvania Municipal Bond Fund since November 1997. She has been
a Vice President and municipal  bond fund portfolio  manager since joining First
Union National Bank in November 1992.


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September 20, 1999