Bennington’s early Courthouse and adjacent Taverns history
John Cushman Tavern and later courthouses stood on a hill above Bennington, near the future Battle Monument site. The 1809 fire destroyed the first courthouse and Cushman Tavern, prompting rebuilds and later relocation southward for fire protection. The Cushman family, Andrew Selden, Erastus Young, and Samuel Young figure in civic life, with Fay and Brown families shaping the local economy and architecture. The narrative traces taverns, harness maker shops, a blacksmith yard, and the evolving streetscape up to Monument Avenue and the monument era.
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Bennington
Charles Cushman
Norwich Landing
Conn
Charles Jr
Charles Sr
Desiah Brush
Desiah
Dorset
Gir
Hartford
N.Y
Anna Johnson
White Creek
Warrensville
Ohio
Cushman Tavern
Andrew Selden
Picea
Samuel B. Young
Cushman’s
Charles Cushman Jr
Erastus Young
Andrew Selon
Hadley
Mass
Charity
Green Blackmer
Blackmer
Young
Samuel Fay
Stephen Fay
Catamount
John Fay
Alice Merrill
Margaret Fay Brown
Looking Back ADV highlights local sales and notices
The column lists bargain items such as Morrissey’s-Fancy potatoes and canned goods with prices, and notes a Republican rally speaker Mrs. James Hollingsworth at Equinox Pavilion. It also mentions a new telephone directory feature, a motorists incident with a Mobil truck, and various local notices including school board elections, a meteorological appointment, and public art.
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Morrissey’s
James Hollingsworth
New York City
Equinox Pavilion
Hollingsworth
Dewey Brook
East Main Street
Mobil
Fred W. Strait
Route 7
Town Hill
Miloslav Januska
New York
Marion Hardy
Shaftsbury
Januskas
James Bellemare
Emile Bellemare
Gage Street
U.S. Weather Bureau
Jamaica
L.I
Atlantic Weather Patrol
Olive Williamson
Jesse Strong
Joseph Crossman
Fred _ Stacy
Shaftsbury School
Lionel Nowak
North Bennington
Bennington College
Main Street
Grace Hoper
James Joyce
Finnegan
Anthony Smith
Hunter College
William Colvin Jr
Nowak
Robert Graf
Bennington County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Maine and its political stars in the late 1800s
A look at Maine's September elections and the Maine figures who shaped national politics. It recalls Hannibal Hamlin, William Fessenden, Lot Morrill, the Washburn brothers, Elihu Washburne, and James G. Blaine, noting how Maine politicians influenced Washington and the idea that Maine predicted national trends.
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Maine
District of Columbia
Kittery
Fort Kent
Washington
Galaxy of
Hannibal Hamlin
Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
William Pitt Fessenden
Senate
Johnson
Fessenden
Treasury
Salmon P. Chase
Hugh McCulloch
McCulloch
Indiana
Sen
Lot Morrill
Elihu
Massachusetts
Washburne
Illnois
Congress
U.S. Grant
Grant
France
Livermore
Bill Frye
Melville W. Fuller
Thomas Brackett Reed
McKinley
Neal Dow
James G. Blaine
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John J. Baker
State Arms Hill
Court House Hill
John Bahan
John Cushman
Daniel Haling
Alexander
Parons
Benjamin Fay
Mr. Fay
Fay
Samuel H. Brown
State Arms House
Troy
Monument Ave
Benjamin Fay Brown
Sarah Brown
Stockbridge
Anna Hathaway
Albany
Monument Avenue
Battle Monument
Monument
Catamounts National Bank
Otte
van Putnam Square
Brattleboro
Manchester Center
West Dover
Vermont
F.d.1i.c
United States
Africa
Alo Wes
Friendship, Maine
Washburn
Androscoggin Valley
Israel
Cadwallader Colden
Wisconsin
Charles
California
San Francisco
Paraguay
State of
Garfield
Arthur
Harrison
Nichols
Twins
Queens Kings
Surabaya
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