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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 .
Bennington Battle Monument was dedicated on August 19, 1891 with a grand ceremony lead by President Benjamin Harrison and a gathering of tens of thousands onlookers. The exterior of the stone monument is constructed of Sandy Hill dolomite, a blue-gray magnesian limestone quarried from the Town of Kingsbury, New York.
Oct 25, 2008 · The Bennington Battle Monument is 306 feet 4 and 1/2 inches tall; the cornerstone was laid in 1887, and the monument completed and dedicated in 1891. It is constructed from blue-grey magnesian limestone (known as Sandy Hill Dolomite from present-day Hudson Falls, New York), which is rough-faced, with the exception of two horizontal bands near the observatory level.
The Battle of Bennington: (August 16, 1777) Hampered by heavy rains, the British had halted their advance and were encamped on the south slope parallel to the Walloomsac River. General Stark, assessing the British position, sent detachments under Colonel Moses Nichols to circle Baum’s left, under Colonel Samuel Herrick to circle the right, and under Colonels David Hobart and Thomas Stickney ...
The Monument Gift Shop offers a fine selection of quality merchandise relating to the Battle and the Monument. The items are indicative of the social, geographical and economic factors that occurred over a span of 114 years; from the Battle of Bennington in 1777 until the completion of the Monument in 1891.
A Vermont owned State Historic Site, the Bennington Battle Monument is 306 feet 4 and 1/2 inches tall and was completed and dedicated in 1891. It is constructed from blue-grey magnesium limestone. The Monument was built to commemorate the Battle of Bennington which occurred on August 16, 1777.
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Battle of Bennington . The Battle of Bennington was a pivotal victory for American forces on the New England front of the American Revolution. On August 16, 1777, Vermont’s Green Mountain Boys, the New Hampshire Militia, and volunteers from Massachusetts, defeated British troops who were charged with capturing provisions stored at the Bennington supply depot—the site were the Bennington ...
