On the road leading to the Bennington Battle Monument is a statue of a Catamount on a granite pedestal. This was placed as a marker in rememberance of the Catamount Tavern. The Tavern was not named the Catamount Tavern until years after it stopped being a tavern. Whether known as Fay's House, the Green Mountain Tavern, or the Catamount Tavern, it was the meeting place of Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys. It was here that they planned the assualts on New York and the British. It was here that, according to Vermont sources, the attack on Fort Ticonderoga was planned. The Tavern burned down in 1871.
In 1765, at the CatamountTavern in Bennington, Vt., the colonies of New York and New Hampshire settled their claims for the territory which is now the State of Vermont.
Catamount served as tanker and supply ship to this varied fleet, as well as mothering a swarm of LCVP's which were able to sweep waters too shallow for larger craft.
Catamount returned to San Diego on 13 August, operated on the west coast and on 22 November sailed for another tour with the 7th Fleet in the Far East.
It was in November 1950, at Chinnampo, port city of Paengnyong, that Catamount achieved a notable first, when she became the first LSD to take part in minesweeping operations.
Catamount had two more tours of duty in the Korean War, from 3 November 1951 to 24 July 1952, and from 29 October 1952 to 8 April 1953.
In the summer of 1957, Catamount sailed from Seattle, Wash., on resupply missions to stations of the Distant Early Warning Line in the Arctic.from 12 June to 8 December 1958, she cruised in the Far East once more, returning for duty off the coast of southern California.
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