Keywords: New England Shipbuilding Company (Bath, Me.)
Item 8025
Marine boiler, Bay State side-wheeler, Portland, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Portland; Bath Media: Photoprint
Item 27927
Galen Moses and friends, Bath, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: circa 1890 Location: Bath Media: Photographic print
Item 151465
Galen C. Moses house, Bath, 1901
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1901 Location: Bath Client: Galen C. Moses Architect: John Calvin Stevens
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South Portland's Wartime Shipbuilding
Two shipyards in South Portland, built quickly in 1941 to construct cargo ships for the British and Americans, produced nearly 270 ships in two and a half years. Many of those vessels bore the names of notable Mainers.
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Maine's first governor, William King, was arguably the most influential figure in Maine's achieving statehood in 1820. Although he served just one year as the Governor of Maine, he was instrumental in establishing the new state's constitution and setting up its governmental infrastructure.
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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."
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Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington
"Shipbuilders needed clothes, gloves, boots and more, and they turned to Sears Roebuck for affordable clothing."
