The 306-foot obelisk is the tallest structure in Vermont and commemorates the 1777 Battle of Bennington. One of the odd historical details is that the battle carrying Bennington's name was actually fought several miles away across the present-day New York state line.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: historicsites.vermont.gov/bennington-battle-monument