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Keywords: Bath Maine Waterfront

Historical Items

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Item 11043

Waterfront and downtown Bath, 1851

Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: 1851 Location: Bath Media: Ink on paper

Item 8864

Steel four-mast bark 'Dirigo,' Bath, 1894

Contributed by: Maine Maritime Museum Date: 1894 Location: Bath Media: Glass Negative

Item 28457

Roe and Colby map detail, Bath, 1873

Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: 1873 Location: Bath Media: Ink on paper, linen backed

Online Exhibits

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State of Mind: Becoming Maine

The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?

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Maine Streets: The Postcard View

Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.

Exhibit

Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland

The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.

Site Pages

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Bath, then called Long Reach, first achieved a separate identity as the Second Parish of Georgetown in 1759."

Site Page

Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor

"The waterfronts of both towns provided the perfect location for the industry, and a working landscape of canneries, smokehouses, and other businesses…"

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Maine Maritime Museum

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My Maine Stories

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An enjoyable conference, Portland 2021
by John C. Decker, Danville, Pennsylvania

Some snippets from a 4-day conference by transportation historians in Portland, September 7-11, 2021