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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GJV_new-hampshire-at-the-battle-of-bennington_Atwater-VT.html
Erected in honor of Brigadier General John Stark and the 1400 New Hampshire men who came to the defense of Vermont in August 1777. Assembling at Fort Number Four in Charleston, New Hampshire, Stark and his troops crossed the Green Mountains to aid…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GJU_anthony-haswell_Atwater-VT.html
Editor and publisher the Vermont Gazette
Bennington
Uncompromising in defense of freedom of the press
Imprisoned in 1800 for opposition to Alien and Sedition Laws as threats to the newborn democracy
Erected in 1912
On site of first printing press …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GJS_birthplace-of-vermont_Atwater-VT.html
Near this site
stood the homestead of
Lieut. James Breakenridge
after years of peaceable possession his farm was claimed by New York land speculators - A sheriff and over three hundred men came from Albany to evict him from his home - Aided by men…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EWQ_the-dorset-field-club_Pawlet-VT.html
On September 12, 1886 a group of golfers, principally from Troy and New York City, who summered in Dorset, laid out a nine hole golf course, then known as The Dorset Golf Links on this present site. The Club's first president and principal archite…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ECH_harmons-mint_Dorset-VT.html
On the site at Hagar Brook stood the small clapboarded mint-house in which Reuben Harmon, Jr. coined copper for the Republic of Vermont, 1785-1788. When the Federal Government was instituted in 1789, Vermont abandoned minting. This rare currency o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15N0_ethan-allen_Blue-Ridge-VT.html
A few feet south from this stone stood the house in which Ethan Allen lived while he was a resident of Bennington1769-1775
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13NZ_home-where-lt-colonel-baum-died_Shaftsbury-VT.html
A few feet east of this marker stood the house, removed about 1870, in which Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum died. Commander of the enemy forces, he was mortally wounded in the battle of Bennington and died two days later, August 18,1777.He was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMONZ_the-corkscrew-railroad_Bennington-VT.html
When wealthy North Bennington resident Trenor Park purchased the Bennington-Rutland Railroad, he found that the railroad "barons" of the Troy and Boston Railroad refused him access to the New York lines. Rather than fight this monopoly, Park built…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIS0_vermonts-colonial-shrine_Bennington-VT.html
Whereas, the Old First Church of Bennington wasorganized December 3, 1762, and is the Oldest Church within the present limits of Vermont; and
Whereas, our forefathers met in Prayer in the FirstMeeting House for assistance against the oppressive…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIHP_governor-jonas-galusha-homestead_Shaftsbury-VT.html
Jonas Galusha, born in Norwich, CT in 1753, moved his family to Shaftsbury in 1775. During the Revolutionary War he served with Seth Warner's Green Mountain Boys and was at the Battle of Hubbardton and a Captain during the Battle of Bennington. A …