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History of Bath, Maine, USA

Journey back in time to Bath, Maine, USA

Visit Bath, Maine, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• 1781 - Bath formed from a part of Georgetown
  
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  Erudition School House, "1794"
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  Brig Clarissa Ann, Bath, Maine, 1824
  Maine Maritime Museum, Bath, Maine
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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 - 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...
  
  The New York Times
  New York, New York
  March 21, 1854
  
  
• 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...
  
  
  
• 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...
  
  
  
• 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...
  
  
  
• 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...
  
  
  
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  Center Street in 1889
  Leading Business Men of LEWISTON, AUGUSTA and VICINITY, BOSTON, MERCANTILE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1889
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•  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...
  
  
  
• 1894 - February 3 - 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me
  
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•  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...
  
  
  
• 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...
  
  
  
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  Old Ladies Home
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  M.C.R.R. Station, Bath, Maine.
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  Front Street from Opera House, 1904
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  The Morse High School, 1905
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  Maine Court House and Soldiers Monument
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  Washington Street from Elm. Bath, Maine. (1907)
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  The Shannon House, 1908
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  Center Street, 1910
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  King Tavern, Home of first Gov. of Maine, Gov. King
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  Peoples Baptist Church
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  Wesley M.E. Church
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  Post Office and Custom House
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  View on the Kennebec River, 1914
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  City Park and Fountain and Winter St. Church
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  Orphan Home
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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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  Launching a Torpedo Boat Destroyer, Bath Iron Works
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  Public Library, Bath, Maine
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  Hotel Sedgwick
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  Center Street, looking East
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  Front Street
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  Bath Iron Works Office
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