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Catamount Tavern Site

Landmark

The site of Stephen Fay's Catamount Tavern, the primary meeting place of the Green Mountain Boys from the early 1770s through the Revolution. A mounted catamount (mountain lion) displayed over the door gave the tavern its name and became a symbol of Vermont defiance. The original structure is gone; a historical marker and the Bennington Museum collection preserve its memory.

Visiting Today

Address

Old Bennington, VT 05201

Connected Events

Mar 1777
John Stark Resigns Continental Commission

General John Stark, Elizabeth "Molly" Stark

Jun 1777
Jul 1777
American Supply Depot Established at Bennington

Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum, General John Burgoyne

Aug 1777
Burgoyne Dispatches Baum's Raiding Column

General John Stark, Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum, General John Burgoyne, Elizabeth "Molly" Stark

Aug 1777
Battle of Bennington — Defeat of Baum's Column

General John Stark, Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum, Colonel Samuel Herrick, Elizabeth "Molly" Stark

Aug 1777
Battle of Bennington — Defeat of Breymann's Relief Column

General John Stark, Colonel Seth Warner, Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum, General John Burgoyne, Elizabeth "Molly" Stark, Lieutenant Colonel Heinrich von Breymann

Oct 1777
Congress Promotes Stark to Brigadier General

General John Stark, Elizabeth "Molly" Stark