Colonel John Robinson House Marker

This monument marks the location where Colonel John Robinson and his family once lived. The house at 17 Robinson Road in Westford, Massachusetts was built sometime around 1764, approximately when Robinson and his wife Huldah married. On July 11, 1937, a fire destroyed both the barn and the Robinson House.

The stone marker placed on the road in front of the house was dedicated on April 19, 1896 by Westford’s Colonel John Robinson Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The quartz boulder is believed to have been used by Robinson’s daughter to mount her horse at a property near Nashoba Hill.

An inscription on the boulder reads:
HERE LIVED
COL. JOHN ROBINSON
A BRAVE AND DISTINGUISHED OFFICER
IN THE
BATTLES OF CONCORD AND BUNKER HILL
BORN 1735. DIED 1805.

The historic photo of the Robinson House, taken in 1907, is held in the collections of the Westford Historical Society and Museum.