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Historical Sites related to the Life and Career of Benedict Arnold


  1. Arnold's March: Maine Portion

Joseph Weston Home Site and Grave

Home site: approx. 512 Waterville Rd, Skowhegan, ME (about 0.25 mi east of Old Bloomfield Cemetery access road)

Grave: Old Bloomfield Cemetery, approx. 492 Waterville Rd, Skowhegan, ME. There is a sign along Waterville Road. Turn here and follow what appears to be a driveway as it passes close to a house and turns left. At the end of the road is the cemetery. The public is allowed access.

Joseph Weston was one of the original settlers of the area. Arnold, in his journal entry for Sunday, Oct.1, 1775, records that he "Dined at one Westerns 3 mi before Sou heagan falls at 4 P.M." Joseph Senior helped with the difficult portage over the falls, took sick and died shortly thereafter. His son Joseph Junior joined the expedition, later returning and leading a full life in Skowhegan.

Click here to read the account on Skowhegan's website: http://www.skowhegan.org/395/The-first-white-settlers-arrive
And here: http://www.skowhegan.org/397/The-Revolutionary-War-Benedict-Arnold
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Joseph Weston Senior's gravestone is on the left, situated in the back of the cemetery
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Joseph Weston Senior's gravestone is on the left, situated in the back of the cemetery

  • Sign at the cemetery, which sits well back from the present road.
  • Joseph Weston Senior's gravestone is on the left, situated in the back of the cemetery
  • Joseph Senior's gravestone
  • Inscription for Joseph Senior. Note his date of death, not long after the expedition passed through.
  • Joseph senior's gravestone is on the left in the middle-distance. Joseph Junior's is in the foreground.
  • Joseph Junior's gravestone on the left
  • Close up
  • Sign along Waterville Road indicating the location of the Weston homestead
  • Close up of the sign
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