Antiquities and Local Lore in Bath Maine
Notes from the Independent recount Bath area antiques including Parson Ellingwood’s table once in the Old North church now at Winter Street. The Maine governor William King’s piano with seven legs and an inscription draws curiosity. Also mentions a 1812 pastor, a famous mansion, a 25 year anniversary of Maine’s last legal execution, and ship carpenters famed for skill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Parson Ellingwood
Old North Church
New England
Old North Society
Winter Street
William J. Rouse
Harvard
Connossieur
William King
Maine
Executive
Robert and Williams
du Bois and Stodart
New York
Daniel Wilkinson
Lawrence
Thomaston
Irish
J. M. Porter
D. H. Mansfield
C. R. Norton
Ira M. True
O. A. Kittridge
Bath Merchants Seek Commission Form Of City Government
Bath merchants discuss adopting a three to five member city commission to run all departments with accountability. The plan, praised by Bowdoinham Senator-elect Lewis M. Fulton and Bath representatives, would replace the mayor and 28 aldermen system and could lower costs. The group also notes Bath’s electric monopoly under act, calling for legislative relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyde
Portland
Waterville
Maine
Bath Merchants’ Association
Lewis M. Fulton
Bowdoinham
Charles L. Farnham
Augustus A. Percy
Bath
Sagadahoe County
Pres
James
Lowell
Sagadahoc
Fulton
Old Bay Bridge
First Church Sites and Early Parishes of Kennebec Valley
The article surveys early churches and meeting houses along the Kennebec and nearby towns from the Popham era through the 18th century. It lists locations at Preble's Point Arrowsie Doubling Point Pleasant Cove Phippsburg Georgetown Woolwich Dresden Bath and related figures including Rev. Gutch Parson Emmerson Parson Winship Rev. Jacob Bailey and Col. Arthur Noble. It notes fires, relocations, and the formation of congregations established between 1607 and 1783.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebec Valley
New World
America
Plymouth
Kennebec
Preble
Pleasant Cove
James T. Morse
Phippsburg
Arthur Noble
Presbyterian Society
Old Georgetown
Samuel Denny
Parson Emmerson
Phippsburg Center
Woolwich
Nequasset
Parson Winship
Dresden
Jacob Bailey
Bath church history traces growth of early congregations
The piece recounts how Bath and nearby areas formed and moved houses of worship from 18th to 19th centuries. It details the Witch Spring meeting house, Old North and Old South churches, heating debates, and postwar religious expansion. It notes schooling origins and early schoolhouses, with figures for funding and locations, including Bath, Georgetown, and Phippsburg.
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Page & Shaw
Webber
John M. Clark Undertaking
Conducted BY
Wm. C
Chadbourne
Front St
C. M. Humphreys
Sagadahock Block
Bath, Maine
J. F. Butler
Elm Street
John R. Knowlton
Centre Street
J. H. Pratt
Center Street
Aiss M.H. Loach
Boston
E. S. Crosby Company
Front Street
S. Curnris
Cyrus W Longley
Frost St
Bath, MB
Beo. F. Wallace
Center ST
Datry Products
Independent
Lake Champlain
Ent
Kennebec River
First Church In
Popham
Pilgrims
Dummer Sewall
Daughters of the American Revolution
Fred F. Blaisdell
Iease
Jonathan Philbrook
Rouse
High
Georgetown
Brunswick
West Bath
New Meadows
Witch Spring
Solomon Page
Old North
Center
High Streets
Trufant's Point
Shaw Mill
Universalist Church
Custom House
City Hall
Belfrey
Blasland
J. CD. Robinson
Union Wharf
Pattern Shipyard
Nicholas Mitchell
Augusta Work
Oak and
Washington Streets
Old South
Meeting House Hill
High Street
Wesley Church
Commercial Street
John B. Worth
Percy
Phippaburg
Henry Heald
Long Beach
Hydes
Elmhurst
Stone School House
Robeson
the Standard OF America
Sheffield
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