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The Bennington Battle Monument is just over 306 feet high and was completed in 1891 to commemorate the Aug. 16, 1777 Battle of Bennington, considered a turning point in the Revolutionary War.
Bennington Battle Monument. The Bennington Battle Monument is a 306-foot-high (93 m) [1] stone obelisk located at 15 Monument Circle, in Bennington, Vermont, United States. The monument commemorates the Battle of Bennington during the American Revolutionary War. In that battle, on 16 August 1777, [2] Brigadier General John Stark and 1,400 New ...
Bennington in 1887. First of the New Hampshire Grants, Bennington was chartered on January 3, 1749, by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth and named in his honor. It was granted to William Williams and 61 others, mostly from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, making the town the oldest to be chartered in Vermont and outside of what is now New Hampshire, though Brattleboro had been settled earlier as a ...
It carries River Road across the westward-flowing Walloomsac River, about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) west of its junction with Vermont Route 67A. The historic Henry House stands just south of the bridge. The bridge is a single-span Town lattice truss structure, with a total length of 121 feet (37 m), and a width of 18.5 feet (5.6 m) and a roadway ...
88001301 [1] Added to NRHP. November 9, 1988. Bennington station is a historic former railroad depot at 150 Depot Street in downtown Bennington, Vermont. Built in 1897-98 by the Bennington and Rutland Railroad, it is the only Richardsonian Romanesque railroad station in the state of Vermont. It was listed on the National Register of Historic ...
Bennington Museum. The Bennington Museum is an accredited museum with notable collections of art and regional history. It is located at 75 Main Street, Bennington, Vermont, USA. The museum's history dates to 1852 when the Bennington Historical Association was first incorporated. In 1923 the association acquired a former church, which it ...
The numbers of NRHP listings in each county are documented by tables in each of the individual county list-articles. Emma Willard House, in Addison County. First Congregational Church of Bennington, in Bennington County. County. # of Sites. 1. Addison. 73. 2.
Bennington, Vermont. 1771. Oldest inn in Vermont [ 8 ] Jehiel and Mary Webb House. Rockingham, Vermont. 1775. second oldest house in Rockingham; located at 7 Meeting House Rd., Rockingham Village. [ 9 ] also purported to be David Pulsifer Inn, which would make the building 10 years older [ 10 ] Old Constitution House.