Rudd Cabin

The plaque gives the family its Indian hazards; Harriet Rudd's own remembered story is of two men who walked into the cabin while she was ironing, and the biscuits she made them. She had waited eighteen years to marry Anson, a blacksmith known as the Blacksmith Poet, and they settled here bound for California. Their son was born in the cabin in 1861 as most of the town emptied for the war. Anson later served as warden of the penitentiary, and the 1881 stone house beside the cabin is built of rubblestone its convicts quarried.

What the plaque says

This tablet is the property of the State of Colorado Rudd Cabin Built in 1860 by Anson and Harriet Rudd, this cabin is one of the few original log cabin homes still standing in Colorado. First local building with a wooden floor, this cabin was the birthplace of Anson Spencer Rudd (first white child born in Canon City to reach maturity.) During much of the Civil War, the Rudd family faced Indian hazards, and alone inhabited Canon City. At the war's end Anson Rudd became one of the leading citizens of a revived city, being at various times prison warden, postmaster. sheriff and county commissioner. The adjacent stone building was the Rudd home in 1881. Erected by the State Historical Society of Colorado the Canon City Museum Association the General Marion Chapter of D.A.R. the citizens of Canon City 1957

Where it stands

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• Royal Gorge Bridge — 5.0 mi
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