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Recreation in the Shires Driving Tours SUGGESTED ITINERARIES Each of These Suggestions Represent a Full Day of Activity Bennington - Manchester Recreation in The Shires Driving Tours SUGGESTED ITINERARIES Each of these suggestions represent a full day of activity. For a more relaxed pace, split over two days and include a night’s stay at a local motel or bed and breakfast. To include a show, do a half tour and then an early dinner to leave time to see a play at Oldcastle Theatre or the Dorset Theatre. Arts & Culture Tour #1 • Visit Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home in Manchester • Drive Route 7A (The Shires Byway) to Bennington Kelly Stand Road • Lunch on Main Street and walk the downtown. Provides access to the Long Trail/Appalachian Trail, Green • Visit “The Bennington” Center for The Arts Mountain National Forest, Branch Pond and Grout Pond. • Drive the Covered Bridge Loop Seasonal road, closed during winter months. • Dinner in North Bennington Batten Kill “Kill” is Dutch for “river.” Famous for fly fishing, the river is Byway Arts & Culture Tour #2 • Breakfast on Main Street in Manchester also popular for canoeing and tubing. Best for paddling in • Visit the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester spring or after a rain as it can get low during drier months. • Lunch on Main Street in Manchester and walk the downtown area Lake Shaftsbury State Park Located in Shaftsbury, it offers visitors a great beach and picnic • Drive Route 7A (The Shires Byway) to Bennington areas, easy hikes around the lake, and a rental cottage. Row • Visit the Bennington Museum boats, pedal boats, kayaks, and canoes are all available for rent • Dinner in Down town Bennington as well as a picnic shelter for large group gatherings. For those that need to refuel, a concession stand located in the park offers History Tour yummy snacks at reasonable prices. • Breakfast in Bennington • Visit the Bennington Museum Woodford State Park • Visit the Bennington Battle Monument Located in Woodford, it is the highest elevation campground • Visit The Covered Bridge Museum in the state at 2400’ above sea level. With easy trails, an open • Take a walking tour of Downtown Bennington lake, and a bog to explore, it’s great for all ages. Woodford • Lunch in Bennington on Main Street has boat rentals (canoe, kayak, and rowboats) 103 campsites, • Drive Route 7A (The Shires Byway) to Manchester and is also a popular fishing location. If you stay overnight, • Visit Museum of American Fly Fishing be prepared to be awakened by an outstanding chorus of birds • Shop historic Main Street in Manchester which serenade visitors, especially in the spring. • Dinner in Manchester on Main Street Emerald Lake State Park For more information on Attractions, Dining and Lodging Located in East Dorset, it includes a small clear, clean, and cold through The Shires of Vermont, visit: lake where visitors can rent a kayak, canoe, pedal boat or row - Bennington Area Chamber of Commerce: boat. A concession stand, lakeside picnic tables, and a picnic www.Bennington.com pavilion for large groups are also available. 104 campsites are Manchester Chamber of Commerce: scattered on the heavily wooded ridge above the lake. www.visitmanchestervt.com www.TheShiresOfVermont.com So Vermont. So near! resolved and Vermont writer-educator Dorothy Canfield Fisher, artist Rockwell statehood was achieved. Kent, and illustrator Norman Rockwell. Fly fishing, ca - A larger challenge, noeing, and kayaking are enjoyed on the Battenkill. posed by British troops, Sunderland, once home to Ethan and Ira Allen, is ended with the Battle of mostly in Green Mountain National Forest, accessible by Bennington in August the picturesque Kelly Stand Road that crosses the mountains 1777 and victory for toward Stratton. The Chiselville covered bridge stretches American independence. high over the Roaring Branch. The 306-foot Battle Monument is Vermont’s most-visited State His - toric Site. Bennington College and Bennington Museum along with a number of artisan craft estled between the Green Mountains to the East and the shops, celebrate the artis - Taconic Mountains to the West, the Shires of Vermont tic creativity that remains BNyway between Manchester and Pownal beckons the visitor to prevalent in this region. enjoy scenery, hospitality, recreation, and cultural heritage. Known for its pottery, 19th century knitting mills, an econ - The Green Mountain Range is a steady source of omy of manufacturing, retailing, and tourism, Bennington has aesthetic inspiration as well as wildlife habitat, timber, fresh a regional hospital, and five colleges. water, hunting, fishing, and hiking. The Taconics form a massive Shaftsbury, an early Baptist town, where poet Robert Frost and natural boundary with New York. lived from 1920 to 1938, today finds residents scattered over Mohawks and Iroquois first traced this path, and by the some 85 miles of mostly gravel roads in rural-agricultural home - 1760s it became a migrating route for pioneers from Litchfield steads. Its chief industry makes pre-cast concrete products. and Berkshire counties seeking life in wilderness newly opened to settlement. Bennington County is Vermont’s only county with two “shire” towns, Manchester and Bennington, each with its courthouse, hence the terms North and South Shire. Route 7A Manchester is synonymous with the arts, golf, fishing, is paralleled by the Long Trail, hikers’ famous “footpath in the skiing, and tourism. Before the Civil War Franklin Orvis wilderness” from Massachusetts to Canada. opened the Equinox Hotel. Mary Todd Lincoln and sons Each town has special character. Pownal boasts scenic back Robert and Tad stayed there, and Robert later built his roads ideal for bicycling, bordered by organic farms, and a summer home, Hildene, now a major historic attraction. backdrop of formidable mountains. It was settled early by Retailing features factory outlets and is anchored by the Dutch families who found fertile soils along the Hoosic River. Orvis Company and its American Fly Fishing Museum. History saturates Bennington, the first town chartered (1749) To learn more about Vermont Byways, visit by Governor Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire. Settled in 1761 by Congregational Separatists, Bennington drew newcom - www.vermont-byways.us ers from southern New England who soon learned that land they purchased in good faith was challenged by New Yorkers. New York may have had the better legal claim but Wentworth was Arlington’s 2,400 residents cluster in two villages. quicker to act. Ethan Allen organized the Green Mountain Boys Governor Chittenden lived here long enough to justify the to secure land rights, though it took thirty years until they were claim as Vermont’s first capital. Residents have included www.TheShiresOfVermont.com So Vermont. So near! History and Scenery Along The Shires of Vermont Byway 11 7A To Emerald Lake anchester played a crucial role in Stone Valley the American victory at the Battle of Byway BMennington on August 16, 1777. On July 15, 1777, only a week after the con - Map not to scale. stitution of the “free and independent state of Vermont” had been adopted at Windsor on the 11/ Connecticut River, the Vermont Council of 30 Safety met at Manchester to devise ways to stop British General John Burgoyne’s advance down the Champlain Valley. Ira Allen, the Council’s secretary, sent out appeals for help, and New Hampshire quickly responded. General John Stark raised a force of close to 1,500 militiamen, and in early August they crossed into the Valley of Vermont to pro - tect the supplies stored at Bennington. riter Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1897- Camped at Manchester on the day of 1958) was one of Arlington’s most influ - 7A the battle, Col. Seth Warner regrouped eWntial citizens, locally and nationally. A social the Green Mountain Boys, as ordered and political activist, she managed the nation’s by General Arthur St. Clair. These first adult education program, introduced the troops arrived at the battlefield near Montessori teaching method to America, and did Bennington in the nick of time to turn war relief work in 1917 in France. B p the tide for the American Patriots. Born in Kansas and educated at Ohio State 313 a l o t l Manchester’s major traffic roundabout at the University and Columbia University, she made te i o L n H intersection of Routes 7A and 11-30 conceals the Battenkill River her home in Arlington, where Canfield ancestors K d m oldest marble bridge in Vermont. Nearby amid r were early settlers. She was a founder of the n i retail stores and factory outlets are an ancient l a l a Book-of-the-Month Club and wrote S l i F riverwalk along the Battenkill and artisans in de r many novels and non-fiction books, T e l West Arlington rip l glass and woodcraft. including The Vermont Tradition and d i Bridge n H Memories of Arlington. Su Mrs. Fisher chaired the Vermont Chiselville Board of Education and sought to Bridge improve the state’s many rural one- ip ide Tr room schools. Responding to concerns over Kelly Stand S Vermont’s low population in the early 20th inter) ed in W century, she acted as a one-person chamber of (Clos commerce to publicize abandoned hill farms as available summer homes or second homes. Among artists she attracted to Arlington was Norman Rockwell, who painted many of his fa - ne of the most curious episodes in Vermont history mous Saturday Evening Post covers here in the took place in the winter of 1780-81, before the American 1930s and 1940s, using local models. Others in - ROevolution had ended. British agents met at Ethan and Ira Allen’s cluded artist-composer Carl Ruggles and artist home here in Sunderland. Their hope was that Vermont would Rockwell Kent. It was she who suggested with Lake Shaftsbury join British Canada.
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