Railroad Stations of the Bennington and Rutland Railroad with Bill Badger

Manchester Community Library

Local architect Bill Badger, president of the Rutland Railroad Historical Society and board member of the Manchester Historical Society, will present an illustrated program on the stations of the Bennington and Rutland Railroad, later the Rutland Railroad, from Rutland to Bennington. Built in 1852-53 as the Western Vermont Railroad, the tracks are still operated by […]

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Vermont 250th: David Redding, Hanged in Bennington with Phil Holland

Manchester Community Library

On June 11, 1778, Loyalist David Redding, then living in Hoosick, N.Y., was hanged in the village of Bennington for “enemical conduct” after not one, but two trials. It was the first execution carried out in the fledgling independent state of Vermont (though it would not be the last). Ethan Allen, newly released from British […]

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