The Coburn Cabin is a one room log cabin that was built in the early 1890’s for Margaret Coburn by her children. John and Margaret Coburn were early Clear Creek County pioneers. John Coburn was the founder of Free America, the original townsite of what is now Lawson. The cabins original location next to the Coburn family home in Lawson. After John passed away in 1888, Margarte lived in the cabin until her death in 1903. Her independence dictated that she not live with her children. Margaret was a natural healer and she grew medicinal herbs and harvested wild plants to treat locals for various ailments.
The cabin sat vacant for a number of years after Margaret’s death. Then I-70 was constructed through the community. The Coburn family home was torn down along with may others. The little was saved and moved to Georgetown. There it was use as a beauty parlor, the Chamber of Commerce building and a laundromat among other things. Then it was moved again to a different location in Georgetown where it sat vacant until Jerry Buckley contacted Joan Drury. John and Margaret Coburn are the great, great grandparents of Jan, Joan and Gayle Drury. With the help of Joan Drury, Jim Lucas and others, the Coburn Cabin was moved again. This time to the MCVHS property next to the Dumont Schoolhouse. Eventually a concrete foundation was built and the cabin was moved to its new solid foundation where it will stay for the foreseeable future.
