Bennington, Vermont

Wikipedia says: "The Battle of Bennington was a battle of the American Revolutionary War, taking place on August 16, 1777, in Walloomsac, New York, about 10 miles away from its namesake Bennington, Vermont.[1] An American force of 2,000 New Hampshire and Massachusetts militiamen, led by General John Stark with aid from Colonel Seth Warner, along with elements of Vermont's Green Mountain Boys, defeated a combined force of 1,250 dismounted Brunswick dragoons, Canadians, Loyalists, and Native Americans led by Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum that British General John Burgoyne was attempting to push through the northern Hudson River Valley." I don't know, it just seems silly to build a 300 foot tall.....thing to celibrate a battlein which you won when the odds were nearly 2 -1. View is nice from up here though.













For $2.00, Benny Bourgeois will take you up to the top of this bad boy and you will see three (count 'em, three) states. It lies in Vermont at the southwest corner, so one direction is New York, one is Massachusetts, and the other two are (wait for it) Vermont. Benny Bourgeois, just in case you missed that name the first time.