Bennington Battle Monument
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Towering over Bennington like a smaller version of the Washington Monument, it’s hard to miss the 300-foot-tall limestone obelisk that is the Bennington Battle Monument (15 Monument Cir., 802/447-0550, www. historicvermont.org/bennington, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. mid-Apr.–Oct., $2 adults, $1 children).
Inside is a diorama of the second engagement of the Battle of Bennington, along with an elevator that takes visitors two-thirds of the way up for a knockout view of the Green Mountains, the Berkshires, and the Taconic Range (in Vermont, Massachusetts, and New York respectively).
Appropriately heroic statues of the battle’s heroes, colonels John Stark and Seth Warner, stand on the monument grounds, along with a gift shop located on the actual site of the storehouse the British hoped to capture.
© Michael Blanding and Alexandra Hall from Moon New England, 2nd Edition
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