Finding Katahdin Document Packets, Chapter 8, Section 2
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Third phase, burning of Old South Church, Bath, 1854 / Maine Historical Society
Chapter 8, page 239-240.
During the summer of 1854 anti-Catholic sentiments ran high. A mob in Bath, incited by a street preacher, ransacked and burned the Protestant church that had been rented by Catholics as a place of worship. The Know-Nothing party was held responsible for this act. See also Record #5283.
May Agnes Tincker's book The House of York(1872) chronicled the anti Irish Catholic sentiment.