Old Bennington

Old Bennington
Old First Congregational Church
Location in Vermont
Old Bennington
Basic data
Foundation :	January 3, 1749
State :	United States
State :	Vermont
County :	Bennington County
Coordinates :	42 ° 53 ′  N , 73 ° 13 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 53 ′  N , 73 ° 13 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents :	137 (as of 2010)
Height :	245 m
Area code :	+1 802
FIPS :	50-53125
GNIS ID :	1461243
Website :	www.benningtonvt.org
Bennington Museum

Old Bennington is a village in the town of Bennington in Bennington County , Vermont in the United States with 137 inhabitants (according to the 2010 census). Old Bennington is centrally located in the town of Bennington. A small river flows through the area in an easterly direction and flows into the Walloomsac River . The Vermont State Route 9 runs as Main Street from west to east.

history

View of Old Bennington in a painting by Daniel Folger Bigelow

The Village Old Bennington is the original center of the Town Bennington. The area was settled by Samuel Robinson and another group of religious separatists from Connecticut and Massachusetts in 1761. The commercial and commercial center of the town moved from Old Bennington east into the valley and Old Bennington became a historic housing estate.

The Old Bennington Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Each of the approximately 130 houses in the Village is part of the Historic District. More than 100 of the houses were built between 1763 and the 20th century. The report states that this district is one of the oldest and best-preserved districts in the state. The Bennington Battle Monument , a 93 m high stone obelisk, is located in a park in the north of Old Bennington. It commemorates the Battle of Bennington .

In the center of Old Bennington there is another park, it is the rest of the former village green , which is surrounded by original buildings from the first settlement. It also houses the Old First Congregational Church from 1803, which was declared a Vermont Colonial Shrine , the Walloomsac Inn from 1764, the Jedediah Dewey House from 1764 and the Old Burying Ground . The first Old First Congregational Meeting House from 1764, which was replaced by the Old First Congregational Church in 1803 , took the wounded after the Battle of Bennington and was cared for here. In the cemetery behind the church are the graves of around 75 soldiers from the American Revolutionary War, as well as British and Hessian soldiers who were killed in the battle. In addition, the poet and four-time Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Frost was buried in the family grave of the Frost in this cemetery. In 1791, this meeting house signed the treaty that made Vermont the 14th state to join the United States. Ethan Allen had a house on the edge of the cemetery.

The Bennington Museum is to the southeast of the Village on Main Street.

Population development

year	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990
Residents	215	42	152	174	169	198	205	268	353	279
year	2000	2010	2020	2030	2040	2050	2060	2070	2080	2090
Residents	232	139

North Bennington, Vermont census results

Personalities

Personalities who have worked on site

• William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) clergyman and writer

literature

• Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont, natural, civil and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. Chauncey Goodrich, Burlington 1842, p. 20th ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer . 1st volume. Burlington 1867.

Web links

Commons : Old Bennington, Vermont  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Village of Old Bennington on the town's homepage
• Entry on VirtualVermont (English) ( Memento from March 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Old Bennington in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed August 26, 2017
2. ↑ Population data from the 2010 US Census in the American Factfinder
3. ^ ^{A b c} Village of Old Bennington. In: benningtonvt.org. Retrieved August 26, 2017 (American English). 
4. ↑ Asset Detail. In: nps.gov. npgallery.nps.gov, accessed on August 26, 2017 . 
5. ^ ^{A b} Historic Old Bennington, Vermont - A Site on a Revolutionary War Road Trip. In: revolutionaryday.com. Retrieved August 26, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Population 1900–2010 according to census results