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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 .
The Bennington Battlefield is the Rensselaer County, New York, location where the Battle of Bennington occurred on the 16th of August 1777. It is located on New York State Route 67 in Walloomsac, New York , a historic route between Bennington, Vermont and the Hudson River .
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.
The Bennington Battle Monument in Bennington, Vermont. Total Hessian, Loyalist and Iroquois losses at Bennington were recorded at 207 dead and 700 captured; [9] American losses included 30 Americans dead and 40 wounded. [7] The battle was at times particularly brutal when Loyalists met Patriots, as in some cases they came from the same ...
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 battle monument was financed in 1877, built in the 1880s, completed in 1889, and dedicated in 1891 to commemorate the Battle of Bennington centennial. The monument and its story were personal for Grandma Moses who lived close by for many years and whose great-grandfather, Archibald Robertson, had been a soldier in the battle.
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 ...
In the late 1800s, the Bennington Battle Monument was built. [80] In 1911, a statue of Warner was placed on the monument grounds. [81] [82] The likeness of the statue is imaginary, as no portrait or other illustration of Warner was made during his life. [83] The site of Warner's Bennington house is designated by a commemorative marker. [84]