The Catamount Tavern, built in 1767 and originally named the Green Mountain Tavern, served as a meeting place for the Council of Safety and the Green Mountain Boys from 1767 to 1775. On May 9, 1775, Ethan Allen and 270 men, 40 of them Green Mountain Boys, captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British. The tavern burned down in 1871. The first Post Office was located south of the tavern until the building was moved to East Bennington by several yoke of oxen.

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Old Bennington, Vermont · USA