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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 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 ...
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 .
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 Battle Monument State Historic Site – Obelisk commemorating the Battle of Bennington; Chester A. Arthur State Historic Site – President Chester A. Arthur birthplace; Chimney Point State Historic Site – Exhibits interpreting over 7,500 years of human habitation by three cultures; Native American, French colonial, and Early American
In Bennington, there is a battle re-enactment put on by the local history foundation. [2] The Battle of Bennington took place in New York, but is so named because the British were headed for a cache of weapons and munitions stored where the Bennington Battle Monument now stands in present-day Old Bennington, Vermont. [3]