Arnold Expedition Historical Society

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Arnold Expedition Historical Society

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Here's the text from an recent article in the Kennebec Historical Society newsletter. This article covers recent donations by AEHS to the KHS and is followed by a link to the whole KHS newsletter. A worthwhile read. If you aren't familiar with the Kennebec Historical Society please take a look at their whole newsletter. You'll find they are a great group.
From the newsletter:
Arnold Group Gives KHS Its Library, Research Documents
The Kennebec Historical Society received two substantial collections on June 1, both from the Pittston-based Arnold Expedition Historical Society. One is the group’s collection of about 50 books, concentrating on Benedict Arnold and
the Arnold Expedition to attack the British at Quebec in particular. The group once housed its library at the state-owned Major Reuben Colburn House in Pittston, but that long-unoccupied building is in now disrepair, so the group members thought it best to transfer their materials to an appropriate facility to allow for preservation and accessibility. They decided the Kennebec Historical Society was the ideal candidate.
The second, and related, gift is the Stephen Darley Collection. Darley, a historian from North Haven, Connecticut, did copious research on the Arnold Expedition and the men who were a part of it. The result was the publication of two books that he wrote: Voices From a Wilderness Expedition: The Journals and Men of Benedict Arnold’s Expedition to Quebec in 1775, and Voices Waiting to Be Heard. Darley died in 2022, and his research materials, including several boxes of scholarly journals, articles, notes, other files, and another 50 or so books, went to the Arnold Expedition Historical Society.
KHS President Kent London hailed the acquisitions as a milestone advancement in the society’s status as a research center. “This is very much a pivotal part of the American Revolution, and to have it in our own collection is extraordinary,” he said, referring to the Arnold Expedition, adding that KHS might consider trying to acquire the copyright to Darley’s books in order to be able to republish them.
Arnold society member Stephen Gehnrich, of Woolwich, first proposed the transfer of the two collections to KHS in an October
2025 conversation with KHS Executive Director Scott Wood at a meeting in Waterville of the Central Maine Heritage Council, an informal consortium of history-related organizations that convenes twice a year at various locations in Kennebec County.
The Arnold group then voted at its January 17 meeting to offer the collections to KHS, and Gehnrich delivered them in June, Wood said.
The Kennebec Historical Society’s Collections Committee voted in July to accept the donations for incorporation into the KHS library and archive at the Henry Weld Fuller Jr. House, located at 107 Winthrop Street in Augusta, where the items will be cataloged and made available to researchers. The Arnold society is still active, maintaining trails along the expedition route, hosting guided hikes, producing newsletters, and providing information on its website, arnoldsmarch.org.

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Arnold Expedition Historical Society

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