John B. Russwurm House

John B. Russwurm House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	238 Ocean Avenue, Portland, Maine
NRHP Reference #	83000450^[1]
Added to NRHP	1983

The John B. Russwurm House is an historic house in the Back Cove neighborhood of Portland, Maine. It was the residence of American abolitionist and Liberian colonist John Brown Russwurm. Russwurm lived in the house intermittently from 1812-1827.^[2] He was co-editor of Freedom's Journal, the first newspaper in America owned and published by African-Americans.^[3]

References

↑ Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ African American Historic Places by Beth L. Savage
↑ http://www.portlandmonthly.com/portmag/2014/02/voice-of-america/ Portland Magazine, "Voice of America" February/March 2014

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