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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 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 ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Bennington County, Vermont, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
Map of Bennington battlefield. The main portion of the Bennington Battlefield is located about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west of the New York-Vermont border, on the north side of the Walloomsac River. The river valley is flanked by a series of hills with steeply ridged sides.
Prominent civic buildings are the town hall (an 1846 Greek Revival building), the county courthouse (1936, Colonial Revival), and the Old Bennington Post Office (1914, Classical Revival, now the police station). [2] The town of Bennington is the largest town in southwestern Vermont, and is one of two shire towns of Bennington County. It has ...
The Henry Covered Bridge is located on northwestern Bennington, southwest of the village of North Bennington and the campus of Bennington College. 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 was probably built in 1840 by Benjamin Sears, who was from a family of well-known bridge builders in the region. The family is also credited with construction of the Paper Mill Village Bridge (1889), downriver a short way from this bridge; the Burt Henry Covered Bridge is also nearby, the three bridges all on a 2-mile (3.2 km) stretch of the river.
Bennington is the oldest county in Vermont still in existence, created by the first general assembly on March 17, 1778. [4] Vermont was organized into two original counties, with Bennington in the west and Unity (a few days later renamed Cumberland) in the east. [5] On February 16, 1781 Rutland County was created from Bennington County. [6]