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The Bennington County 250th Committee is planning a four-day celebration of the 250th anniversary of the victorious 1775 Patriot expedition to capture Fort Ticonderoga in the first days of May 2025. On Saturday, the activities are in the Southshire with events throughout the day at sites from Pownal to Shaftsbury, including the Southern Vermont HomeBrew Festival.

On Sunday, the commemorations continue into the Northshire, with destinations in Arlington, Sunderland, Manchester, and Dorset before we hand off a ceremonial powder horn to the group that will take it northward to re-enact the capture of Fort Ticonderoga from the British on the morning of May 10, 1775, by a force famously led by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys.

On Thursday and Friday, this educational project will involve approximately 215 4th-grade students from Bennington County in a guided 2-hour field trip to various sites in Old Bennington on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the mobilization of the Green Mountain Boys under Ethan Allen at the Catamount Tavern before they set out to capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British in May, 1775. In small groups on a staggered schedule, students will visit the Bennington Museum, the Bennington Centre Cemetery, the Old First Church, the site of Ethan Allen’s house, the Catamount Tavern monument, where they will witness the arrival of Capt. Edward Mott from Connecticut with a plan in his pocket and some orders for Allen, then up the hill to the Monument, with elevator rides to the observation deck, and games such as hoop rolling on the Monument lawn before boarding buses.