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Bennett (RICHARD American BENSON York)

RICHARD, American BENSON York Central railroad; 36 miles E. of Troy, N. Y. It contains the villages of Bennington, North Bennington and Bennington Center; and has large woolen and knit goods factories; a Soldiers' Home, a Memorial Battle monument, dedicated on the centennial of the admission of the State into the Union, March 4, 1891, two National banks, and graded public schools. There are valuable deposits of brown hematite ore in the town. Bennington is historically famous on account of the battle fought Aug. 16, 1777, when General Stark with his "Green Mountain Boys" defeated a large British detachment sent from General Burgoyne's army to capture the public stores near North Bennington. Pop. (1910) 6,211; (1920) 9,982.