A symbol in Vermont is the Bennington flag.  In the year 1777, General John Stark defeated a large raiding force at  Bennington. This, flag, was carried by Vermont militia in that battle. The original Bennington flag  can be seen at the Bennington museum.

Windsor, a county in the S. E. central part of Vermont, has an area of about 1040 square miles. It is bounded on the E. by the Connecticut, and is traversed by the White river and other smaller streams, which furnish abundant water-power. The surface is generally uneven, and in the W. part mountainous.  The soil is fertile.

Indian corn, potatoes, wool, and grass are the staples. In 1850, the county produced 312,581 bushels of corn; 613,297 of potatoes; 118,865 tons of hay; 1,741,228 pounds of butter, and 589,305 of wool. The quantity of corn, hay, and butter was the greatest produced by any county in the state. There were 3 cotton, and 22 woollen factories, 3 foundries, 4 machine shops, 7 flour mills, 3 grist mills, 12 saw mills, 17 manufactories of boots and shoes, 7 of farming implements, and 17 tanneries. It contained 79 churches, 4 newspaper offices, 1845 pupils attending public schools, and 340 attending other schools. Steatite and limestone are found here. The Connecticut river is navigable, by means of canals round the falls, along the E. border. The county is intersected by the Rutland railroad, and also by the railroad connecting Concord and Montpelier. Organized in 1781. Shiretown is, Woodstock. Population, 38,320.

Windsor, (1854 US Gazateer) is a beautiful and flourishing post-village of Windsor county, Vermont, at the union of the Sullivan and the Vermont Central railroads, 77 miles S. S. E. from Montpelier. The site comprises the western verge of an alluvial meadow about a quarter of a mile wide, bordering on the Connecticut, and terminated on the S. and S. W. by Millbrook, and by Pulkhole Brook on the N. and N. W. The scenery is exceedingly varied and picturesque, the view embracing Ascutney mountain, only 3 miles distant. The village is handsomely and somewhat compactly built. The streets are beautifully shaded, and many of the dwellings are enclosed by highly ornamented grounds. The principal avenue is very serpentine, making as many as four considerable angles in passing from the northern to its southern limit, the effect being that not more than one-third of the village can be seen from any one point of view.

Windsor is the seat of the Vermont State Prison, besides which it contains a bank, 2 newspaper offices, a seminary for young ladies and gentlemen, 3 or 4 churches and 10 or 12 stores. It carries on an active trade by the Connecticut, and is also in the centre of one of the finest agricultural and wool-growing sections of the state. For the purpose of securing an available water-power, a dam, 360 feet in length and 42 in height, was constructed across Millbrook in 1835, about half a mile from its entrance into the Connecticut. The entire fall is 60 feet in one-third of a mile. In 1814, Windsor and West Windsor were incorporated as two distinct towns, reunited in 1815, and incorporated a second time in 1848.