Garland Globe | 1906-05-07 | Page 7 | Historic Vermont Town

Historic Vermont Town. Bennington is tho most peculiarly interesting of all Vermont towns on account of Its historical associations ns well ns Its pictorial beauty. It Is situated In tho extreme southwestern portion of tho beautiful stato whoso name, derived from two words, signifies sig-nifies "green" nnd "mountain." It wns hero that tho prldo-swollcn Bur-goyno Bur-goyno cast a covetous eye on tho supplies sup-plies and stores gathered from tho fertile prolific fields, and to secure which for his hungry mercenaries ho sent out on army early in August, 1777, under Col. Baum, composed chiefly of Germans with n scattering of British. From "Tho Charm of Historic His-toric Bennington," by a. Marlon Bur-, Bur-, ton, in Four-Track News.