Noted for a major role in establishing and defending an independent Vermont in 1777, he was a frontier entrepreneur, an officer of the Green Mountain Boys and in the 1775 American Revolution northern campaign. Allen was an author and principal . . . — — Map (db m23650) HM
700 feet N.E. of this memorial stood the log cabin from which David Rittenhouse observed the transit of Venus June 3, 1769. Permission to use this site was given by Herbert T. Ballard, owner of this property. — — Map (db m84849) HM
In memory of soldiers of Washington's Army who died in the old barn, used as a hospital, five hundred yards northeast from this place, during the winter of 1777-78. — — Map (db m23661) HM
