Major Reuben Colburn House

Arnold Road, Pittston, Kennebec County, Maine

Built in 1765, for Major Reuben Colburn (1740-1818), the shipbuilder who under the orders of George Washington constructed 200 boats (Bateaux) and raised a militia for what would be Benedict Arnold's disastrous attempt to take Quebec in 1775. His timber frame house overlooking the Kennebec River was home to four generations of the Colburn family. The Major's great-grandson, Richard H. Colburn, left for California in 1902 and from then on his sister, Bertha, only maintained it as a summer home....

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Reuben Colburn

Major Reuben Colburn, Shipbuilder, of Pittston, Kennebec County, Maine

1740-1818

David Colburn

David Colburn, Shipbuilder, of Pittston, Maine & Nantucket, Massachusetts

1773-1825

John Colburn

John Colburn, of Pittston, Maine

1783-1850

Hannah Averell

Mrs Hannah (Averell) Colburn

1781-1870

Gustavus Adolphus Colburn

Gustavus A. Colburn, Lumber Merchant, of Pittston, Maine

1822-1886

Richard Hawthorne Colburn

Richard H. Colburn, of Tulare County, California

1864-1942

Bertha Colburn

Bertha A. Colburn, died unmarried

1858-1941

On her death, she bequeathed the property to a cousin and as such it remained in the Colburn family until 1953 when it was sympathetically restored by the new owners. It was purchased by the State of Maine in 1971 and named the Colburn House State Historic Site. In 1974, it was leased to the Arnold Society who enable it to function as a house museum displaying bateaux, maps, military antiquities, period furnishings and family portraits.

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Colonial

Image Courtesy of Matt Pettengill, Flickr; Colburn House State Historic Site - National Register of Historic Places Registration Form

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