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CONTINENTAL STOREHOUSE

storehouse

ON THIS SITE
STOOD THE
CONTINENTAL STOREHOUSE
OBJECT OF
THE BRITISH ATTACK
THAT WAS REPULSED
BY THE COLONIAL FORCES
AT THE
BATTLE OF BENNINGTON
AUGUST 16, 1777

CATAMOUNT TAVERN SITE

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SITE OF THE CATAMOUNT TAVERN
1767

ETHAN ALLEN HOMESITE

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A FEW FEET SOUTH FROM THIS STONE
STOOD THE HOUSE IN WHICH
ETHAN ALLEN LIVED WHILE HE WAS
A RESIDENT OF BENNINGTON
1769 -1775

DIMMICK’S TAVERN

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1777-1927
SITE OF DIMMICK TAVERN WHERE JOHN STARK
AND HIS NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS
CAMPED BEFORE THE ENGAGEMENT AT
WALLOOMSAC HEIGHTS
WHERE THEY LED IN THE WINNING OF
A DECISIVE VICTORY OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON
AUGUST 16, 1777
ERECTED BY THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

HARMON’S TAVERN

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TWO HUNDRED FEET WEST OF
THIS MARKER STOOD THE
TAVERN BUILT BY CAPAIN DANIEL
HARMON BUILT ABOUT 1771.
GENERAL JOHN STARK HAD
BREAKFAST IN THE TAVERN,
AUGUST 14, 1777. DANIEL
WILLIAMS HARMON, NOTED
CANADIAN EXPLORER, WAS
BORN IN THE TAVERN,
FEBRUARY 19, 1778.

MARKER ERECTED BY BENNINGTON
BATTLE MONUMENT AND HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION , 1950.

BREAKENRIDGE HOMESTEAD

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“BIRTHPLACE OF VERMONT”

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 FROM BENNINGTON A
BRAVE DEFENSE WAS MADE WITHOUT
BLOODSHED. PROVING TO BE A DECLAR-
ATION OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE
STATE OF VERMONT. JULY 19, 1771.
THE HOME OF FOUR GENRATIONS WAS
DESTROYED BY FIRE IN 1889.
PLACED BY THE
BENNINGTON CHAPTER D.A.R.
1927

WARNER HOMESTEAD

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FORTY FEET WEST OF THIS SPOT
STOOD THE HOME OF
SETH WARNER
COLONEL OF THE GREEN MOUTAIN BOYS,
DURING HIS RESIDENCE IN BENNINGTON.
HERO OF HUBBARDTON AND BENNINGTON
BATTLES, 1777.
THE HOUSE WAS DESTROYED BY FIRE
IN 1858

ERECTED BY THE CONNECTICUT AND MASSACHUSETTS
SOCIETIES OF THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
AUGUST 16, 1927

STARK ENCAMPMENT (overlooking Walloomsac Heights)

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GENERAL JOHN STARK’S
CAMPING GOUND
AUGUST 14-15-16, 1777.
“THERE ARE THE REDCOATS
AND THEY ARE OURS,
OR THIS NIIGHT
MOLLY STARK
SLEEPS A WIDOW.”

COLONEL BAUM (died here)

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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, WE WAS
MORTALLY WOUNDED IN THE BATTLE
OF BENNINGTON AND DIED TWO DAYS
LATER, AUGUST 18, 1777.
HE WAS BURIED ON THE NORTH BANK
OF THE WALLOOMSAC RIVER, WEST OF
THIS SITE. THE PRECISE SPOT NOT
NOW BEING KNOWN.
ERECTED BY THE VERMONT SOCIETY
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1927.