Bennington, Vermont For other places in Vermont called Bennington, see Bennington, Vermont .
Bennington, Vermont Bennington Battle Monument Bennington Battle Monument Located in Bennington County, Vermont Located in Bennington County, Vermont Bennington, Vermont is positioned in the US Bennington, Vermont - Bennington, Vermont County Bennington Bennington is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, in the United States.
It is one of two shire suburbs (county seats) of the county, the other being Manchester. The populace is 15,431, as of 2014 US Enumeration estimates. Bennington is the most crowded town in southern Vermont, the third-largest town in Vermont (after Essex and Colchester) and the sixth-largest municipality in the state including the metros/cities of Burlington, Rutland, and South Burlington in the count.
The town is home to the Bennington Battle Monument, which is the tallest human-made structure in the state of Vermont.
There are three historic districts inside the town today: Old Bennington, Downtown Bennington and North Bennington.
In the early 1800s, Downtown Bennington started developing, and by 1854 the county's populace had reached 18,589. The town is known in particular for the Battle of Bennington, which took place amid the Revolutionary War.
Although the battle took place roughly 12 miles (19 km) to the west in what is now the state of New York, an ammunition storage building positioned in Bennington was an meaningful strategic target.
In 1891, the Bennington Battle Monument was opened.
Bennington is positioned in southwestern Bennington County at 42 53 28 N 73 12 29 W.
To the west is New York State, Pownal, Vermont is to the south, Shaftsbury, Vermont is to the north and Woodford, Vermont is to the east.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 42.5 square miles (110.1 km2), of which 42.2 square miles (109.4 km2) are territory and 0.27 square miles (0.7 km2), or 0.59%, is water. Bennington is drained by the Walloomsac River and its tributaries, flowing to the Hoosic and then the Hudson River.
Climate data for Bennington, Vermont Bennington employs a representative town meeting form of small-town government, wherein an voted for seven-member Select Board represents the town's people at large from two districts. The Select Board is considered the "executive branch" of the town's government, which in turn hires and supervises a Town Manager.
Four delegates from Bennington's two voting districts presently represent the town in Montpelier.
Bennington County is also represented by two state senators.
The town is protected by both the Bennington Fire Department and the Bennington Rural Fire Department.
The current chief of the Bennington Fire Department is Jeff Vickers, and the current chief of the Bennington Rural Fire Department is Wayne Davis. Bennington Police car in downtown Bennington The town is protected by the Bennington Police Department, which comprises of 40 sworn and non-sworn officials serving the town, including the villages of Old Bennington and North Bennington.
The police station's home is at 118 South Street in downtown Bennington.
The Bennington County Sheriff's Office provides prisoner transport, traffic control, court security, and a Drug Taskforce, among other part s for the town and the remainder of Bennington County. The current Sheriff is Chad D.
Bennington County, as of 2013, has 15,194 non-farm employees residing or working inside the county as of 2013. Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, with a workforce of roughly 1,300 employees, is the town's biggest employer, and the seventh biggest in Vermont.
Bennington leaders have formed the Bennington Economic Development Partners to facilitate and expedite economic growth.
The Town of Bennington Economic and Community Development Office, the Better Bennington Corporation, the Bennington Area Chamber of Commerce, Bennington County Regional Commission, and Bennington County Industrial Corporation are just some of the partners who coordinate the accomplishments of the Strategic Plan.
Bennington's "big box" evolution is mostly confined to the Northside Drive and Kocher Drive corridor in the northern portion of town.
Bennington has a historic downtown with businesses that include cobblers, a barber shop, chocolatier, bakery, cafes, pizza parlors, live theatre, brewery, bookshop, men's and women's clothiers, jewelers, Vermont crafts and products, toy stores, music shops, a hobby shop, a nation store, an art shop, home enhancement and lumber yard, a exhibition, and a several arcades.
Downtown Bennington is also home to Bennington Potters, Oldcastle Theatre, Hemming's Motor News, Robert Frost Grave and the Old First Church, the Bennington Museum, Grandma Moses' Schoolhouse, Old Blacksmith Shop Visitor Center, and Madison's Brewery. Other eminent downtown businesses include the South Street Cafe, the Gamers' Grotto (an autonomously owned video game store and game console arcade) and the Blue Benn Diner.
Downtown Bennington is a designated "Vermont Main Street" participant overseen and directed by the Better Bennington Corporation, a nationally accredited National Main Street Program by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Bennington is the biggest town, and the second biggest municipality in Vermont (after Rutland City), that is not positioned on or near either of Vermont's two primary Interstate highways.
Vermont 7 - A.svg Vermont Route 7 - A ("Shires of Vermont Byway") Vermont 279.svg Vermont Route 279 ("Bennington Bypass") The sign for historic Bennington, Vermont US Route 7 southbound, north of Exit 1 in Bennington Route 7, originating in Connecticut and closing northward to the Canada US border, enters Bennington from the town of Pownal, winding its way through the non-urban countryside in the southern portion of town as a two-way traffic, two-lane surface street.
From there, it is a 4-lane limited access highway with two interchanges inside the town before entering Shaftsbury as a Super 2 motorway as it joins Bennington with Manchester and Rutland to the north.
Route 9 is two lanes wide with two-way traffic over its entire segment in Bennington, intersecting with US Route 7 at "Four Corners" in the downtown district.
It leaves Bennington roughly 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the half-completed SPUI interchange at the easterly end of VT Route 279, closing toward Wilmington and Brattleboro and connecting the town to ski areas such as Mount Snow to the east.
Its small-town street names in town are West Road (westward from Old Bennington to the New York border), Monument Avenue (on a short section of the rotary near the Old First Church) and Main Street.
VT Route 279, also known as the Bennington Bypass, is a Super 2 motorway whose northern segment began assembly in August 2007.
This segment of Route 279 was instead of and officially opened to traffic on August 30, 2012. The segment, which continues westward as NY Reference Route 915 - G (unsigned) into Hoosick, New York, before meeting NY Route 7 at an at-grade intersection, and the first segment to be built, officially opened to traffic on October 12, 2004. This road forms a rough semi-circle shape around and north of the unincorporated portion of the town, loosely alongsideling VT Route 9 while doing so.
This segment passes much of Bennington's big box store and fast food restaurant evolution in the northern part of the town.
Vermont Route 67 - A remains inside Bennington for its entire length.
The route begins at an intersection with Route 67, closing southward as Water Street in the village of North Bennington, passing by a several manufacturing companines along the way.
It then turns southeastward, closely alongsideing the Walloomsac River along its northern banks, and briefly becomes a 4-lane divided surface arterial past Bennington College where it meets VT 279 at a parclo interchange.
This segment is known as North Bennington Road, all the way to its southern end where the road continues southeastward as Route 7 - A and Northside Drive (mentioned above).
Vermont Translines bus in downtown Bennington Bennington is home to the Green Mountain Community Network (GMCN), who operate the small-town Green Mountain Express bus service. As of September 29, 2014, they furnish 5 in-town routes Monday through Saturday from 7:35 am to 6 pm on weekdays, and 3 out of town commuter routes serving Manchester (weekdays and Saturdays), Williamstown (weekdays) and Wilmington (weekdays in collaboration with Southeast Vermont Transit, formerly the Deerfield Valley Transit Association's, "MOOver"), and intermediate points.
A several taxi companies, including Bennington Taxi and Monument Taxi, presently serve Bennington and encircling areas.
The Vermont Railway freight rail line, and an exempt rail spur, traverses Bennington in the northern portions.
There has been talk of bringing Amtrak Thruway intercity bus service to Bennington as recently as April 2016, and the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) submitted a study to the state council for approval in January 2016 that also evaluated the impact of a bus stop for this projected bus route in Manchester. Rerouting the Ethan Allen Express train through North Bennington and Manchester has been discussed at least since December 2012 as well. It is possible that the Thruway bus service will start connecting Bennington and Manchester with the Albany-Rensselaer Amtrak train station in the summer of 2017. Morse State Airport is a public-use, state-owned airport positioned about 3 miles (5 km) west of downtown Bennington. Also alluded to as "Southwest Vermont's Airport", it sits near the northern flank of Mount Anthony and close to the Bennington Battle Monument.
Bennington is home to a range of municipal, parochial and private schools.
Bennington College is a progressive four-year liberal arts college ranked 89 in Tier 1 by U.S.
Bennington also has separate satellite campuses of the Community College of Vermont and Vermont Technical College, both positioned downtown. Village School of North Bennington (formerly North Bennington Graded School) The Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union oversees Bennington's enhance school system, which also contains a longterm position center, the Southwestern Vermont Career Development Center, positioned on MAUHS' campus. Bennington is home to the 28-time defending State Wrestling Champion Mount Anthony Patriots.
First Congregational Church in Bennington Sacred Heart Saint Francis de Sales Church in Bennington The following list does not encompassed places of worship in North Bennington, which is an incorporated village in Bennington.
Bennington Church of Christ (Churches of Christ) Bennington Seventh-day Adventist Church (Seventh-day Adventist) Bible Baptist Church of Bennington (Independent Baptist) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Bennington, Vermont (Latter-day Saints) First Baptist Church of Bennington (American Baptist Churches USA) First Congregational Church of Bennington (National Association of Congregational Christian Churches) First United Methodist Church of Bennington (United Methodist) The town also runs a recreation center on Gage Street, which includes a large indoor year-round swimming pool, softball fields, outside basketball court and weight room. Bennington also has a small network of mostly disconnected multi-use recreational trails; there are plans to better connect these paths in the future. The closest state parks to Bennington are Lake Shaftsbury State Park in Shaftsbury and Woodford State Park in Woodford. The Long Trail and Appalachian Trail overlap each other as they pass the town just to the east.
The Conference is held on the ground of Bennington College, and has been positioned in Bennington for almost all of its seasons since it was established in 1946.
The Conference also contains a chamber music festival each summer, performed by faculty members at Greenwall Auditorium on the Bennington College campus, with six concerts held between mid-July and mid-August.
Bennington is also home to the Oldcastle Theatre Company, a small experienced theatre with a special interest in encouraging New England plays.
Bennington College, in the village of North Bennington, has been the home base for Sage City Symphony since its beginning in 1973 by Louis Calabro.
The Vermont Arts Exchange is a non-profit improve arts organization based in the old foundry town of North Bennington.
Within the old foundry in North Bennington are exhibitions, artist and improve workspaces, as well as a prosperous performance venue in the basement which hosts the Basement Music Series.
Bennington is home to the Bennington County Choral Society, the Bennington Children's Chorus and the Green Mountain Youth Orchestra. The Winter Festival and Penguin Plunge at Lake Paran in North Bennington in late January, benefits Special Olympics of Vermont Bennington's small-town journal is the Bennington Banner, with a everyday circulation of 7,800.
Bennington is positioned in a fringe viewing region of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy tv market.
Bennington is also the town of license for these airways broadcast translators: Bennington Battle Monument First Congregational Church of Bennington, 1804 Bennington is home to Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, a improve hospital that serves southern Vermont and has satellite clinics in Manchester, Pownal and Wilmington.
The Bennington Rescue Squad provides Primary 911 service in Bennington as well as non-emergency and interfacility transfers and is staffed at the paramedic level by volunteer members and paid longterm position staff United Counseling Services (UCS) provides Bennington, and the remainder of Bennington County, with services for mental health, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse.
Bennington's electricity is supplied by Green Mountain Power. Non-purchased surface and groundwater is supplied by the Bolles Brook in Woodford and the Morgan Spring in Bennington, in the order given.
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"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Bennington town, Bennington County, Vermont".
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2nd leg of Vt.'s Bennington bypass open to traffic, WCAX The Shires of Vermont Byway Archived May 18, 2013, at the Wayback Machine., Explore Vermont's Byways.
Sanders Praises Bennington Transit Center, Zeke Wright, Bennington Banner, October 29, 2012.
Bennington, VT Bus Service, Yankee Trails World Travel.
Home, Bennington Taxi, JEC Personal Transport.
Regional Commission seeks to connect Bennington and Manchester to Amtrak network, Derek Carson, Bennington Banner.
Rerouting One Option for Local Rail, Bennington Banner.
Passenger Trains through the Bennington Gateway?, Vermont Rail Action Network.
State: Bus to link Bennington area, Amtrak station in NY, WRGB.
Bennington, VT Parks and Recreation Department Archived October 20, 2013, at the Wayback Machine..
Active Transportation Project Guide, Bennington County Regional Commission.
"Bennington County Choral Society".
"Bennington Children's Chorus".
Radio Stations in Bennington, VT, Radio Locator.
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Water Quality Report 2014 Archived June 30, 2015, at the Wayback Machine., Town of Bennington.
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