Major Reuben Colburn House

Colburn House State Historic Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


Location	Arnold Rd., Old ME 27 (0.1 mi. S of jct. with ME 27), Pittston, Maine
Coordinates	44°11′52″N 69°45′16″W / 44.19778°N 69.75444°W / 44.19778; -69.75444Coordinates: 44°11′52″N 69°45′16″W / 44.19778°N 69.75444°W / 44.19778; -69.75444
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

Main article: Reuben Colburn

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

↑ Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "Colburn House State Historic Site". Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
↑ "The Major Reuben Colburn House – 1765". Arnold Expedition Historical Society. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
↑ Emma Huntington Nason (1908). Old Colonial Houses in Maine Built Prior to 1776. Press of the Kennebec Journal. p. 91. Retrieved December 11, 2015.

External links

The Major Reuben Colburn House - 1765 Arnold Expedition Historical Society
Colburn House State Historic Site Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry

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