Home Where Lt .Colonel Baum Died
A few feet east of this marker stood the house, removed about 1870, in which Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum died. Commander of the enemy forces, he was mortally wounded in the battle of Bennington and died two days later, August 18,1777.
He was buried on the north bank of the Walloomsac River, west of this site, the precise spot not now known.
Marker is on U.S. 67 just from Harrington Rd, on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
