Major Reuben Colburn House
Colburn House State Historic Site
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Location | Arnold Rd., Old ME 27 (0.1 mi. S of jct. with ME 27), Pittston, Maine |
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Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
Area | 6 acres (2.4 ha) |
Built | 1765 |
Architectural style | Federal, Georgian |
NRHP Reference # | 04000741[1] |
Added to NRHP | July 28, 2004 |
The Major Reuben Colburn House was the home of Reuben Colburn, a patriot and shipbuilder of Pittston, Maine, from 1765 to 1818. Colburn assisted George Washington and Benedict Arnold in the planning and provisioning of the invasion of Canada. Arnold's expedition to seize Quebec from the British Army in 1775 during the American Revolutionary War began here.[2] The Colburn House State Historic Site is owned by the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands and managed by the Arnold Expedition Historical Society.[3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
Major Reuben Colburn
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Reuben Colburn and his family settled in Gardinerston (then part of Massachusetts) in 1761. In 1763, he was granted 250 acres (100 ha) of land and built a saw mill, brick yard, boat yard, and grist mill on the shores of the Kennebec River. In 1765, he built his two-story home on "an eminence which gradually slopes down to the shore." Colburn was later described as "one of our earliest 'kings of industry.'"[4]
References
External links
- The Major Reuben Colburn House - 1765 Arnold Expedition Historical Society
- Colburn House State Historic Site Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry