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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 Holden–Leonard Workers Housing Historic District encompasses a collection of mill-related tenement houses, plus a former mill store, in Bennington, Vermont.They are located on Benmont and Holden Avenues, near the former Holden–Leonard Mill Complex, Bennington's largest employer in the late 19th century.
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 ...
Bennington is a census-designated place (CDP) in Bennington County, Vermont, United States. It is located entirely within the town of Bennington . The population of the CDP was 9,074 at the 2010 census , [ 3 ] or 57.6% of the population of the entire town.
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]
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The Holden–Leonard Mill Complex, also known colloquially as the Big Mill and now as Vermont Mill Properties, is a historic industrial complex at 160 Benmont Avenue in Bennington, Vermont. Built of many parts between about 1865 and 1925, it is one of the largest and most architecturally distinctive 19th-century mill complexes in the state, and ...
The Paper Mill Village Bridge, also called the Paper Mill Bridge or Bennington Falls Covered Bridge, [2] is a wooden covered bridge that carries Murphy Road across the Walloomsac River northwest of Bennington, Vermont. Built in 1889, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]