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Bennington
Battle Monument Marker Historic Marker
Location
of sign - north of Vermont Route 9, about 4 miles east of the
New York border.
Photo
taken June 2008
Photo
courtesy of Jimmy Wayne
Text
of sign:
Bennington
Battle Monument
On
August 16, 1777, British forces sent by Gen'l Burgoyne to seize
supplies at Bennington were turned back by New Englanders
under
Gen'l John Stark and Vermont's Col. Seth Warner. This 306 foot
commemorative shaft planned 100 years later, was
dedicated
in 1891. In 1953 it was taken over, restored and an elevator
installed by the Vermont Historic Sites Commission which
now
administers it for the State.
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