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Keywords: Bath (ME)
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Item 4193
Title: Bath Iron Works, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1900
Location: Bath
Media: Black and white photograph
Item 4197
Title: Percy and Small Shipyard, Bath, 1902
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1902
Location: Bath
Media: Black and white photograph
Item 27896
Title: Front Street, Bath, ca. 1855
Contributed by: Patten Free Library
Date: circa 1855
Location: Bath
Media: mounted, hand-colored photograph
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Sarah Sampson: Caring for Soldiers, Orphans
Sarah Sampson of Bath went to war with her husband, a captain in the 3rd Maine Regiment. With no formal training, she spent the next four and a half years providing nursing and other services to soldiers. Even after her husband became ill and returned to Maine, Sampson remained in the Washington, D.C., area aiding the sick and wounded.
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At the heyday of trolleys in Maine, many of the trolley companies developed recreational facilities along or at the end of trolley lines as one further way to encourage ridership. The parks often had walking paths, dance pavilions, and various other entertainments. Cutting-edge technology came together with a thirst for adventure and forever changed social dynamics in the process.
Exhibit
Some historical events make us squirm. How do we deal with history that we sometimes wish had not happened in our communities?
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Site
The history of downtown Bath as created by the students of Bath Middle School, with assistance from members of the Sagadahoc History & Genealogy Room at the Patten Free Library and Bath Historical Society. Seventeen exhibits examine various historic blocks in the downtown section of the city.
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