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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 Places in 1988 as Bennington Railroad Station, [1] and since then housed a restaurant, which closed in 2018. It now is an office space for MSK Engineering ...
Location of Bennington County in Vermont. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bennington County, Vermont. 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 ...
The complex now known as the Holden–Leonard Mill was established in 1865, with the construction of its central "Big Mill" by what was then called the Bennington Manufacturing Company. Between then and 1875, that company built most of the housing in this district to provide homes for some of its workers, as well as the company store, whose ...
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 H.C. White Company Mill Complex, is a historic industrial complex at 140 Water Street in North Bennington, Vermont. The White Company was founded in 1879, producing stereographic viewers and stereograph cards, as well as the Kiddie-Kar, a three-wheeled wooden scooter for children. These premises were occupied by the company from then until ...
Furnace Grove stands on the rural eastern outskirts of Bennington, on the north side of Vermont Route 9. The property includes 102 acres (41 ha) sandwiched between a branch of the Walloomsac River to the south and the Green Mountains to the north, and includes three surviving residential structures, a number of agricultural outbuildings, and the industrial remains of its iron foundry past.
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 ...
The Catamount Tavern was a tavern in Old Bennington, Vermont, United States. Originally known as Fay's House, it is marked now by a granite and copper statue placed in 1896. It was built 1769 and burned in 1871. During the tavern's 102 years of existence, it was the site of many important events in Vermont's colonial and revolutionary history.