Bennington, Vermont
Bennington, Vermont | ||
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FIPS code 50-04825[2] | | |
GNIS feature ID | 1462039[3] | |
Website | benningtonvt |
Bennington is a
The town is home to the
History
First of the New Hampshire Grants, Bennington was chartered on January 3, 1749, by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth and named in his honor. It was granted to William Williams and 61 others, mostly from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, making the town the oldest to be chartered in Vermont and outside of what is now New Hampshire, though Brattleboro had been settled earlier as a fort. The town was first settled in 1761 by four families from Hardwick and two from Amherst, Massachusetts.[7] They were led by Capt. Samuel Robinson, who camped in the river valley on his return from the French and Indian War.[8]
Prior to the arrival of colonists, the land belonged to the Western
There are three historic districts within the town today:
Battle of Bennington
The town is known in particular for the
In 1891, the Bennington Battle Monument was opened. The monument is a 306-foot-high (93 m) stone obelisk that is the tallest human-made structure in Vermont. It is a popular tourist attraction.
Geography
Bennington is located in southwestern Bennington County at 42°53′28″N 73°12′29″W / 42.89111°N 73.20806°W.
To the west is
is to the east.Located in the southwesternmost portion of Vermont, it is geographically closer to the capital cities of Albany, New York; Hartford, Connecticut; and Concord, New Hampshire than to its own state capital, Montpelier.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 42.5 square miles (110.1 km2), of which 42.2 square miles (109.4 km2) are land and 0.27 square miles (0.7 km2), or 0.59%, is water.[9] Bennington is drained by the Walloomsac River and its tributaries, flowing to the Hoosic and then the Hudson River. The town is located along the western edge of the Green Mountains, including Bald Mountain, which occupies the northeastern edge of town. (Its 2,857-foot (871 m) summit is just over the town line in Woodford.) In the southwest part of town is 2,350-foot (720 m) Mount Anthony, part of the Taconic Range.
Climate
Bennington experiences a humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb) with cold, snowy winters and warm to hot, humid summers. Snowfall can vary greatly from year to year. The town can experience snowfall as early as October and as late as April, and the surrounding high country can receive snow as late as May. Nor'easters, accompanied by high winds, often dump heavy snow on the town during the winter, and accumulations of one foot of snow or greater are not uncommon when these storms move through the area. One such storm dumped very wet, heavy snow on October 4, 1987, catching many residents off guard, because it occurred quite early in that year's fall season. The storm resulted in many downed trees and power lines, due in part to that year's fall foliage still being intact.[10] Abundant sunshine, along with heavy showers and thunderstorms, are frequent during the summer months. Although tornadoes seldom occur there, an F2 tornado did hit North Bennington on May 31, 1998, during an extremely rare tornado outbreak in the region.[11]
The record high is 98 °F (37 °C), set in 1955. The record low is −25 °F (−32 °C), set in 1994. July is typically the wettest month, and February is the driest. Bennington averages 60.77 inches (154 cm) of snow annually.[12]
Bennington lies in USDA plant hardiness zone 5a.[13]
Climate data for Bennington, Vermont | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °F (°C) | 61 (16) |
63 (17) |
81 (27) |
88 (31) |
90 (32) |
93 (34) |
98 (37) |
98 (37) |
96 (36) |
84 (29) |
78 (26) |
66 (19) |
98 (37) |
Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 30.7 (−0.7) |
34.7 (1.5) |
43.8 (6.6) |
56.7 (13.7) |
67.0 (19.4) |
75.0 (23.9) |
79.4 (26.3) |
77.7 (25.4) |
70.4 (21.3) |
58.7 (14.8) |
47.5 (8.6) |
35.7 (2.1) |
56.5 (13.6) |
Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 11.6 (−11.3) |
15.3 (−9.3) |
22.7 (−5.2) |
34.3 (1.3) |
43.3 (6.3) |
52.4 (11.3) |
57.0 (13.9) |
55.2 (12.9) |
47.4 (8.6) |
36.4 (2.4) |
29.7 (−1.3) |
19.5 (−6.9) |
35.5 (1.9) |
Record low °F (°C) | −25 (−32) |
−25 (−32) |
−15 (−26) |
7 (−14) |
23 (−5) |
29 (−2) |
38 (3) |
32 (0) |
24 (−4) |
16 (−9) |
−1 (−18) |
−20 (−29) |
−25 (−32) |
Average precipitation inches (mm) | 2.75 (70) |
2.24 (57) |
3.15 (80) |
3.27 (83) |
3.66 (93) |
4.13 (105) |
4.34 (110) |
4.00 (102) |
3.57 (91) |
3.69 (94) |
3.11 (79) |
2.79 (71) |
40.70 (1,034) |
Average snowfall inches (cm) | 15.3 (39) |
12.1 (31) |
10.5 (27) |
3.2 (8.1) |
0.2 (0.51) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
1.4 (3.6) |
2.4 (6.1) |
13.1 (33) |
58.2 (148.31) |
Source 1: NWS Office, Albany NY[14] | |||||||||||||
Source 2: The Weather Channel[15] |
Demographics
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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1790 | 2,377 | — | |
1800 | 2,243 | −5.6% | |
1810 | 2,524 | 12.5% | |
1820 | 2,485 | −1.5% | |
1830 | 3,419 | 37.6% | |
1840 | 3,429 | 0.3% | |
1850 | 3,932 | 14.7% | |
1860 | 4,389 | 11.6% | |
1870 | 5,760 | 31.2% | |
1880 | 6,333 | 9.9% | |
1890 | 6,391 | 0.9% | |
1900 | 8,033 | 25.7% | |
1910 | 8,698 | 8.3% | |
1920 | 9,982 | 14.8% | |
1930 | 10,628 | 6.5% | |
1940 | 11,257 | 5.9% | |
1950 | 12,411 | 10.3% | |
1960 | 13,002 | 4.8% | |
1970 | 14,586 | 12.2% | |
1980 | 15,815 | 8.4% | |
1990 | 16,451 | 4.0% | |
2000 | 15,737 | −4.3% | |
2010 | 15,764 | 0.2% | |
2020 | 15,333 | −2.7% | |
U.S. Decennial Census[16] |
As of the
There were 6,246 households, out of which 25.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.2% were couples living together and joined in either
In the town, the population was spread out, with 23.5% under the age of 18, 10.7% from 18 to 24, 26.1% from 25 to 44, 22.0% from 45 to 64, and 17.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 82.6 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $39,765, and the median income for a family was $51,489. Males had a median income of $39,406 versus $30,322 for females. The
Government
Bennington employs an
Four representatives from Bennington's two voting districts currently represent the town in Montpelier. Bennington County is also represented by two state senators.
Fire department
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.[22]
Police
The town is protected by the Bennington Police Department, which consists 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
Economy
Industries related to agriculture, forestry, fishing, trade and retail, tourism, shipping by air, health care and government related jobs help shape and play a vital role in Bennington's economy. Bennington County has 15,194 non-farm employees living or working within the county as of 2013.[24] Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, with a workforce of approximately 1,300 employees, is the town's largest employer and the seventh largest in Vermont. Its largest for-profit manufacturing employer is NSK Steering Systems America, Inc., with a workforce of 864 as of March 2013.[25] Saint Gobain owns a plastic factory, the former ChemFab plant, which has contaminated the environment with Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS).[26]
Bennington leaders have formed the Bennington Economic Development Partners to facilitate and expedite economic growth, working from a newly created Strategic Economic Development Plan that promotes the benefits afforded to companies located in the local area. Low interest loans, site-ready properties for manufacturing, R&D, Retail, and Technology are a few of the benefits available to new and existing industries.
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 that coordinate the efforts of the Strategic Plan.
Bennington's "big box" development is mostly confined to the Northside Drive and Kocher Drive corridor in the northern portion of town.
Long time ski clothing company, CB Sports was headquartered in Bennington. They operated a popular factory outlet store in town which closed in 2008, due to slow sales as a result of the Great Recession.
Downtown
Bennington has a historic downtown with businesses that include a chocolatier, bakery, cafes, pizza parlors, Chinese restaurant, live theatre, breweries and distilleries, bookshop, men's and women's clothiers, jewelers, Vermont crafts and products, toy stores, antique stores, music shops, a hobby shop, a country store, an art shop, a museum, and several galleries.
Downtown Bennington is also home to Bennington Potters, Oldcastle Theatre, Hemmings Motor News, Robert Frost's Grave and the Old First Church, the Bennington Museum, Grandma Moses' Schoolhouse, Old Blacksmith Shop Visitor Center, Lucky Dragon, and Madison's Brewery.[27]
The downtown area is noted for its historically preserved architecture, outdoor seasonal dining, locally owned shops, cafés, Memorial Fountain Park, antique shops, and river walk paralleling the Walloomsac River.
Downtown Bennington is a designated "Vermont Main Street" participant overseen and operated by the Better Bennington Corporation, a nationally accredited National Main Street Program by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Big box bylaw
In January 2005, the Select Board proposed a big box bylaw, primarily in response to
Transportation
Roads and highways
Bennington is the largest town, and the second-largest municipality in Vermont (after Rutland City), that is not located on or near either of Vermont's two major Interstate highways. It is, however, signed on Interstate 91 at Exit 2 in Brattleboro and Interstate 787 at Exit 9E in Green Island, New York.
Five highways cross the town, including two limited-access
- U.S. Route 7 ("Ethan Allen Highway")
- Vermont Route 9 ("Molly Stark Trail")
- Vermont Route 7A ("Shires of Vermont Byway")
- Vermont Route 67A
- Vermont Route 279 ("Bennington Bypass")
U.S. Route 7, originating in Connecticut and continuing northward to the Canada–US border, enters Bennington from the town of Pownal.
VT Route 9 enters the town from the New York border in Hoosick, where the roadway continues west as NY Route 7, connecting to New York state's Capital District.
VT Route 279, also known as the Bennington Bypass, is a Super 2 freeway. The western segment continues westward as NY Reference Route 915G (unsigned) into Hoosick, New York, before meeting NY Route 7. This road forms a rough semi-circle shape around and north of the unincorporated portion of the town, loosely parallelling VT Route 9 while doing so. A Vermont Welcome Center, located at the center of Route 279's interchange with US 7.
Historic VT Route 7A, so named to distinguish it from the freeway portion of US 7, is the former alignment of that road prior to the freeway being built.
Vermont Route 67A remains within Bennington for its entire length.
Bus
Bennington is home to the
Intercity bus service is provided by the weekday operating Yankee Trails World Travel's Albany-Bennington Shuttle,[32] as well as by Premier Coach's Vermont Translines, in its partnership with Greyhound, which operates its Albany to Burlington bus line daily. Both buses serve the town from GMCN's bus terminal.
Taxi
A few taxi companies, including Bennington Taxi,[33] Walt's Taxi and Monument Taxi, currently serve Bennington and surrounding areas. Uber and Lyft ridesharing is also available there.
Rail
The
Air
William H. Morse State Airport is a public-use, state-owned airport located about 3 miles (5 km) west of downtown Bennington.[35] Also referred to as "Southwest Vermont's Airport", it sits near the northern flank of Mount Anthony and close to the Bennington Battle Monument. Based at this airport is the hub of cargo air carrier AirNow.[36] The closest commercial passenger airport to Bennington is Albany International Airport.
Education
Bennington is home to a variety of municipal, parochial and private schools. Continuing education is supported by a diverse mix of colleges and career development centers. Bennington College is a progressive four-year liberal arts college ranked 89 in Tier 1 by U.S. News College Rankings. Southern Vermont College was a private, four-year liberal arts college offering a career-directed curriculum, but has since closed indefinitely following the 2018–2019 academic year. Northeastern Baptist College opened in 2013. Bennington also has separate satellite campuses of the Community College of Vermont and Vermont Technical College, both located downtown.[37]
Bennington currently has four K–12 public elementary schools:
- Village School of North Bennington (formerly North Bennington Graded School)
- Bennington Elementary School
- Monument Elementary School
- Molly Stark Elementary School
There is one public middle school, the Mount Anthony Union Middle School (MAUMS), and one public high school, the Mount Anthony Union High School (MAUHS). The Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union oversees Bennington's public school system, which also includes a career center, the Southwestern Vermont Career Development Center, located on MAUHS' campus.[38]
Grace Christian School is a private, faith-based K–12 school founded in 1995.[39]
High school sports
Bennington is home to the 33-time defending state wrestling champion Mount Anthony Patriots. They have won 33 consecutive Vermont state wrestling championships as of the 2022 season.[40] This is the national record.[41]
As of 2010, the Mount Anthony Patriots have also been state champions in men's and women's nordic skiing, baseball, football, golf and women's lacrosse.[42]
Places of worship
There are 22 places of worship in Bennington, 21 Christian and one Jewish, and at least 18 denominations. The following list does not include places of worship in North Bennington, which is an incorporated village in Bennington.
- Bennington Church of Christ (Churches of Christ)
- Bennington Friends Meeting (Quaker)
- Bennington Seventh-day Adventist Church (Seventh-day Adventist)
- Bible Baptist Church of Bennington (Independent Baptist)
- Church Of God Iglesia De Dios Alfa & Omega
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – Bennington, Vermont (Latter-day Saints)
- Congregation Beth El (Reconstructionist Judaism)
- First Baptist Church of Bennington (American Baptist Churches USA)
- First Congregational Church of Bennington (National Association of Congregational Christian Churches)
- Green Mountain Christian Center (Assemblies of God USA)
- Green Mountain Mennonite Fellowship (Mennonite: Nationwide Fellowship Churches)
- Harvest Christian Ministries
- Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses (Jehovah's Witnesses)
- Missionary Alliance Church (Christian and Missionary Alliance)
- Sacred Heart Saint Francis de Sales Church (Roman Catholic)
- Second Congregational Church (United Church of Christ)
- St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Episcopal)
- Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bennington (Unitarian Universalist)
- Mission City Church
Former places of worship
- Chapel Road Church of God
- First Church of Christ, Scientist (Christian Science)
- Sacred Heart Church (Roman Catholic)
Parks and recreation
The town runs Willow Park, a large park north of downtown, which hosts athletic fields, an 18-hole disc-golf course, a common area for group functions and a large children's playground. The town also runs a recreation center on Gage Street, which contains a large indoor year-round swimming pool, softball fields, outdoor basketball court and weight room.[43] Bennington also has a small network of mostly disconnected multi-use recreational trails; there are plans to better connect these paths in the future.[44]
The closest state parks to Bennington are Lake Shaftsbury State Park in Shaftsbury and Woodford State Park in Woodford.[45] The Long Trail and Appalachian Trail overlap each other as they pass the town just to the east.
Culture
Arts
Bennington is the former home of the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East, a summer institute for amateur musicians. The Conference was held on the campus of Bennington College. Bennington is also home to the Oldcastle Theatre Company, a small professional 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 founding in 1973 by Louis Calabro. The Symphony plays a challenging program of the traditional repertoire as well as commissioning a new work each year.
The Vermont Arts Exchange (VAE) is a non-profit community arts organization based in North Bennington. The mission of the VAE is to strengthen communities and neighborhoods through the arts. VAE hosts exhibitions, artist and community workspaces, and the Basement Music Series. Concerts run year-round and showcase a variety of nationally acclaimed musicians.
Bennington is home to the Bennington County Choral Society,[46] the Bennington Children's Chorus[47] and the Green Mountain Youth Orchestra.[48]
Annual events
- First Fridays in Downtown Bennington, July through October
- Fallapalooza!, store-to-store trick-or-treating on the Saturday before Halloween
- The Winter Festival and Penguin Plunge at Lake Paran in North Bennington in late January benefits Special Olympics of Vermont.
- The St. Patrick's Day Parade in March
- Mayfest in May, an annual showcase of local business vendors
- The Memorial Day Parade in May
- Midnight Madness in July, hours and discounts vary but nearly all retailers participate; 7 p.m. to midnight
- The Bennington Battle Day Parade in August
- The Garlic and Herb Festival during Labor Day weekend
- The Festival of Trees in late November and early December
Print media
Bennington's local newspaper is the Bennington Banner, with a daily circulation of 7,800. News is also carried in the Troy Record, Rutland Herald and Manchester Journal.
Radio and television
Bennington is located in a fringe viewing area of the
The radio stations
Bennington is also the town of license for these radio station translators:[50]
- 93.5 FM W228BL (
- 98.5 FM W253AF (translator of Contemporary Christian)
Sports
The Bennington Martens of the American Basketball Association play their games at Berkshire Community College.[52]
Sites of interest
- Bennington Battle Monument
- Grandma Moses Gallery at the Bennington Museum
- country house
- Robert Frost's grave
- Bennington College
- Southern Vermont College
Photo gallery
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N.Y.C.R.R. station in 1913
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Henry House, 1769
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Silk Covered Bridge, 1840
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The Blue Benn, a historic diner in Bennington
Infrastructure
Health care
- Bennington is home to Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, a community hospital that serves southern Vermont, northwestern Massachusetts, and neighboring eastern New York counties. It also and has satellite clinics in Manchester, Pownal and Wilmington, and Deerfield Valley. The 99-bed medical center is known for its excellence in nursing, receiving the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Magnet designation four times consecutively since 2002, and is also associated with a large modern cancer center
- 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 paid career employees.
- A number of primary and specialty care providers practice in the Bennington area. Most are affiliated with the Southwestern Vermont Healthcaresystem.
- United Counseling Services (UCS) provides Bennington, and the remainder of Bennington County, with services for mental health, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse. The agency is headquartered in Bennington and has a satellite office in Manchester.
Utilities
Bennington's electricity is supplied by
Cable television in Bennington is provided by Comcast. Comcast and Consolidated Communications also provide the town with landline phone and high speed Internet service.[55]
Notable people
In popular culture
- Author Shirley Jackson's memoirs, Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons, depict mid-20th century life in Bennington.
- Much of the 1974 action film The Catamount Killing , starring Horst Buchholz, Ann Wedgeworth and Polly Holliday, was filmed in Bennington.[56]
- The Walloomsac Farmers Market, held in Bennington each Saturday, ranked #72 on The Daily Meal's 101 Best Farmer's Markets for 2014 list.[57]
- SyFy's Ghost Hunters.[58]
See also
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