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Bennington| Town in southwestern Vermont, 55 km/34 mi northeast of Albany, New York, on the Walloomsack River; population (2000) 15,700. It includes Bennington (population (1990) 9,500), North Bennington, and Old Bennington. Local products include fruit, dairy, plastic and wood items, textiles, paper, clothing, ceramics, batteries, and mill machinery. |
| The settlement was headquarters for the Green Mountain Boys (troops who fought to protect the Vermont part of the New Hampshire colony from land claims by New York), organized in 1770 under Ethan Allen. A marker in Old Bennington commemorates the site of Catamount Tavern, where the revolutionaries met with Massachusetts and Connecticut agents to plan the capture of Fort Ticonderoga. In the 1777 Battle of Bennington, which took place to the west, in Rensselaer County, New York, Gen Burgoyne was defeated by militia under Col John Stark. |
| Bennington College (1925) is in North Bennington. Southern Vermont College (1926) is southwest of the town centre. |
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