Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object |
Postcard |
Year Range from |
1907 |
Year Range to |
1920 |
Print size (inches) |
3.5" x 5.5" |
Location |
Vermont, Bennington |
Description |
Hand colored postcard of the site of the encampment of Captain Samuel Robinson, pioneer settler of Historic Bennington, Vermont. Copyright by E.T. Griswold. One of a series of 36 Historical Postcards published by Griswold of Bennington, Vermont. Large field with trees in background and large shadows. Split back postcard allows half of back for message and half for address. Domestic postage one cent, foreign postage two cents. Description on back of card reads: "In 1756, Capt. Samuel Robinson with a body of Soldiers returning to Fort Massachusetts (Fort Hoosick) from an Indian disturbance near Lake George; mistaking the Walloomsac for the Hoosac River, encamped on the spot indicated in the picture by the two figures. (Elijah Dewey, great grandson of "Parson" Dewey, and Dr. H.C. Day, local Historian.) Climbing the heights now known as Old Bennington, he exclaimed: "Boys, this is God's own Country. Some day we will return here." Five years later he returned with a party and settled the town of Bennington, Vermont." |
Related People |
Griswold, Ernest Twamley Robinson, Samuel (1705-1767) |
Credit line |
Gift of Mr. Thomas Foster |
Catalog Number |
1991.7.1 |