The Bennington Battle Monument is impossible to miss: a 306-foot stone obelisk rising above Old Bennington and visible from miles around. Take the elevator to the observation level when it is open for views across Vermont, Massachusetts, and New York.
The monument's scale is slightly startling in such a small village, but that is the point. It marks a battle whose strategic importance was much larger than its rural setting suggests, and it gives Bennington a landmark with real gravity.