{"nrhp_refnum":"66000564","name":"Bennington Battlefield","other_names":["Bennington Battlefield State Park"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"NY 67, on VT state line","address_restricted":false,"city":"Walloomsac","county":"Rensselaer County","state":"NY","lat":42.93453300150006,"lon":-73.30406927809081,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1961-01-20","areas_of_significance":["Military"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Bennington Battlefield is a Revolutionary War battle site along the Walloomsac River near Walloomsac, Rensselaer County, New York, now partly a New York State park (208 acres). The battle took place on August 16, 1777.","why_significant":"The American militia victory at the Battle of Bennington contributed to the defeat of Burgoyne's British army at Saratoga two months later. The battle cost the British about ten percent of their strength and denied them supplies needed for their advance down the Hudson. It also discouraged Burgoyne's Indian allies and encouraged militia enlistment.","narrative":"Bennington Battlefield is the site of a Revolutionary War engagement fought on August 16, 1777, along the Walloomsac River in Rensselaer County, New York. A British and German force of about 800 men, sent by General Burgoyne to seize supplies stored at Bennington, Vermont, was met by militia under General John Stark. The Americans surrounded the dispersed British positions, including a fortified hilltop and a bridge, and routed them. A second fight followed to the west against reinforcements led by Breymann. The victory cost the British roughly ten percent of their army and deprived them of supplies before the Saratoga campaign. Today the landscape remains mostly farm and woodland. A state park on the main British hilltop holds monuments and a bronze relief map of the battle. Modern houses, a railroad bed and a rerouted road are intrusions, and the second battleground is less well preserved than the first.","period_of_significance":"August 16, 1777","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as basically unchanged farmland and woodland, in good condition and well maintained, with state park facilities on the hilltop and some modern houses and a school along Route 67. The second engagement area is less well preserved, and San Coick Mill no longer exists.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.937842-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/66000564_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000564/c1e700032d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000564/c1e700032d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Adam Lenhardt","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bennington_Battlefield_State_Historic_Site_30May2008.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Lenhardt</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bennington_Battlefield_State_Historic_Site_30May2008.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316034","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennington_Battlefield_State_Historic_Site","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4889877"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/rensselaer-county/bennington-battlefield-66000564/"}