DATASETS

You can get most of these freely online, but here are a few georeferenced datasets -- GIS 'layers' -- of general usefulness for our area. We'll add others along the way. (Most of these will be compressed -- 'zipped' -- folders containing multiple associated files.

Bennington County roads (TIGER file; note that this is a folder of several files that have to be all together to be fully usable; this link is to a 'zipped' folder including all of them).

Tax map: Ownership parcels for  Town of Bennington, from state GIS clearing house

A couple of DEMs for North Bennington area (this is a big file).

jpegs of historical campus land-use maps (1933, war years, 1951, 1961, 1973) and a 'key', in a single zip file (these are NOT georeferenced yet)

scan of 1835 Bennington area map in jpeg (NOTE that this map will have lots of inaccuracies and you'll probably find it impossible to get a really tight registration with modern data-sets -- even so, it can probably be used, with some subjective judgment calls, to delineate som things...)

Tax parcel map for Bennigton, 2008; this shows ownership boundaries for entire town of Bennington; it might be of help in georeferencing, since property lines are often identifiable with fencerows and such in old photos and are pretty stable

A few 1942 aerial photos for N. Bennington and Bennington (can download more from USGS).  These are zipped, but still a BIG FILE.  They are more or less orthorectified, but not georeferenced.