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Bennington, VT 05201
On the road
leading to the Bennington Battle Monument is a statue of a Catamount on a granite
pedestal. This was placed as a marker in rememberance of the Catamount Tavern. The Tavern
was not named the Catamount Tavern until years after it stopped being a tavern. Whether
known as Fay's House, the Green Mountain Tavern, or the Catamount Tavern, it was the
meeting place of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys. It was here that they planned
the assualts on New York and the British. It was here that, according to Vermont sources,
the attack on Fort Ticonderoga was planned. The Tavern
burned down in 1871.
