Revolutionary monument, Lincoln family estate, Dartmouth Green, the world's worst weather
A 200-mile chain south-to-north through Vermont and into the White Mountains of New Hampshire. KDDH William H. Morse State in Bennington puts you at the base of the 306-ft Bennington Battle Monument — Vermont's tallest structure, commemorating the August 16, 1777 victory that convinced France to enter the Revolution. Robert Frost is buried in the Old Bennington Cemetery at its base. North to KRUT Rutland-Southern Vermont Regional, 30nm to Manchester and Hildene — the Georgian Revival summer mansion built 1905 by Robert Todd Lincoln, where the Lincoln family lived until 1975 (last direct descendant Mary Lincoln Beckwith). Continue northeast to KLEB Lebanon Municipal on the Connecticut River, 4nm from the Dartmouth College Green — the ninth-oldest U.S. college (1769), Daniel Webster's alma mater, the namesake of the Dartmouth Hall reconstructed twice after fires. East-northeast 60nm to KHIE Mount Washington Regional in Whitefield, 15nm west of the Mount Washington summit — at 6,288 ft the highest peak in the Northeast, home to "the world's worst weather" (hurricane-force winds 100+ days/year) and the 231-mph world-record wind gust of April 12, 1934. The Cog Railway, opened 1869, was the world's first mountain-climbing cog railway.