Manchester and Bennington are both the county seat for Bennington County
Pownal is in Bennington County
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On Center Street south of N Pownal Road, on the left when traveling south.
Pownal was the site of one of the state’s oldest white settlement’s when Dutch settlers lived here for a short time after 1724. Up this valley came the pioneers from Connecticut including Ethan Allen, who led the dauntless Green Mountain Boys & . . . — — Map (db m150438) HM
On Vermont Route 346, 0.1 miles west of Indian Massacre Road, on the right when traveling east.
This site commemorates the gateway of Vermont’s earliest Dutch settlement, the Rensselaerwyck Manor settlement. The Diel Homestead, built by Bastion Diel in the early 1700s, is considered the second earliest dwelling in Pownal. The property’s large . . . — — Map (db m157547) HM
On Vermont Route 346 at North Pownal Road, on the right when traveling north on State Route 346.
Here two Presidents taught school at the beginning of their careers. Chester A. Arthur, a graduate of Union College, educated Pownal youth in 1851. Later while an undergraduate at Williams College, James A. Garfield did likewise. When Garfield was . . . — — Map (db m78255) HM
On Dean Road west of Vermont Route 346, on the left when traveling west.
Like many Vermont communities, North Pownal developed around an industry powered by
a waterway. An eighteenth century grist mill and
a mid-nineteenth-century woolen mill were the first
industries to locate here along the Hoosic River. The . . . — — Map (db m248540) HM
On Dean Road west of Vermont Route 346, on the left when traveling west.
Widow Krieger said to escape
drowning in this river when
tried as a witch ca. 1785.
Accusers believed witches
floated. She sank & was saved. — — Map (db m248538) HM
