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Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine, USA
Bath had its name transferred from the city in England.
How New England Towns Received Their Names
The Day
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October 21, 1914
Bath is known as the City of Ships.
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1781 - Bath formed from a part of Georgetown
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1833 - Bath Iron Foundry established on the Kennebec River
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On June 14, 1847 Bath was incorporated as a city
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1854 - Bath
Bath, a city and port of entry of Lincoln county, Maine, on the right bank of Kennebec river, 16 miles from its mouth. By rail road it is 34 miles N. ... Read MORE...
1854 - The Destructive Gate - Its Effects at the East.
...The depot at the Bath junction was blown over upon the track, and the telegraph wires were broken...
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New York, New York
March 21, 1854
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1859
BATH, a sea-port in Lincoln co., in the state of Maine, U. S., 37 m. S of Augusta, on the W bank of the Kennebec, 12 m. from the ocean. Pop. in 1801, ... Read MORE...
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Beginning in the 1860s, regular steamer service brought reliable transport to Bath, Portland, and Boston.
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1871 - 8 Year Journey
A lady in Bath, Maine, has just had returned to her by the Post-Office Department a letter which she mailed eight years and six months ago. It was... Read MORE...
1873 - BATH: DROWNED.
Bath, Me., Sept. 15. While schooner London of Eastport, John Cassidy, master, lumber loaded, was coming through Merrymeeting Bay last night, she... Read MORE...
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1884 - General Hyde renames Bath Iron Foundry as Bath Iron Works and incorporates company
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1889 - Bath
NEW ENGLAND had many a romance in its younger years, which amid the mystic glamour of a primeval period, would easily have developed into legend or... Read MORE...
1894 - Fire - BATH SUFFERED A HEAVY LOSS
About Half a Million Dollars' Damage by the Fire of Sunday.
BATH, Me., Jan. 29 - The fire in Bath yesterday was the worst the city had ever known. ... Read MORE...
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1894 - February 3 - 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me
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1895 - Bath
Bath, a city, port of entry, and seat of justice of Sagadahoc, Me, is situated on the right bank of the Kennebec River, 12 miles from the ocean, 30... Read MORE...
1895 - BEATEN AND ROBBED. Joseph Stevens of Five Islands Has Rough Experience with Highwayman.
Bath – Nov. 27. – Joseph Stevens, 65 years old, a prominent citizen of Five Islands, was waylaid and robbed Tuesday in Georgetown. Stevens, who is a... Read MORE...
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1916
Bath, a city, port of entry, and seat of justice of Sagadahoc oo., Me., is situated on the right bank of the Kennebec River, 12 miles from the ocean, ... Read MORE...
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