Bath shipyard built two Civil War gunboats Katahdin and Tesco
Bath Maine, famed for merchant ships, produced two Civil War gunboats by Larrabee & Allen. The Katahdin, 507 tons, wooden, 158 ft, launched Oct 12 1861, served in the Gulf and Mississippi campaigns earning praise for resilience. The Tesco, 974 tons, double ended, 266 ft, towed to Boston for machinery, fought at Fort Fisher and Mound Battery before commissioning in 1864 and service along the Atlantic coast.
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Bath
Larrabee & Allen
Larrabe
Losco
Navy Register
Maine
Gulf of Mexico
Jackson
St. Phillip
Louisanna
New Orleans
John Gilpin
George Preble
Portland
Vicksburg
Grand Gulf
Baton Rouge
Edward W. Larrabee
Independent
Dahlgren
A. J. Drake
C. L. Franklin
John Guest
C.L. Franklin
J. S. Thornton
Tesco
Globe Works
Boston
New England
Virginia
North Carolina
Beaufort Harbor
N. C
Fort Fisher
Mound Battery
Sagadahoc Pomona and Dromore Granges Plan Memorial Day
Heavy morning rain reduced attendance as Sagadahoc Pomona grange met Dromore grange of Phippsburg to plan Memorial Day observances. Speakers discussed lime use on clay soils, co op efforts, and apple shipping to a producer consumer exchange while a dinner intermission preceded an afternoon session.
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Sagadahoc Pomona
John King
Merrymeeting Grange
Julia Johnson
Bodwell
George R. Wyman
Reuben Purington
Dromore
Mark. Percy
Frank 8. Adams
Sagadahoc
E. E. Purinton
Pomona
Kate Thompson
Ceres
Lizzie Wyman
Flora
Rebecca Bowker
Bessie Dickinson
George D. Weston
Mark L. Percy
Bodwell Grange
Phippsbore
William RR. Kimball
Bath
Sagadahoe County
B. Walker McKeen
State Grange
Fryeburg
Frank
Adams
Grange
Producers
Consumers Exchange
Danilel Brown
Richmond
Dromgre
Susan Campbell
Kate Weston
Martha Rogers
C. Campbell
R. H. Purington
Agnes Cutting
Elizabeth Upton
Herbert
Bowker
W. A.C. Rogers
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Webber
John M. Clark Undertaking
Conducted BY
Wm. C Chadbourne
Front St
Tel
D. M. Humphreys
Sagadahock Block
Bath, Maine
Cumberland
New York
Broadway
Ath ST
Soth Street
Lard Street
Grand Central Depot
Central Park New
Harry P Stimson
M.H. Loach
E. S. Crosby Company
Center St
Cals
F. S. Curtis
Cyrus W Longley
Fropt St
Bath, MB
Morgen Iron Works
Navy Department
George H. Preble
F. A. Roe
John Irwin
BE. A. Terrell
C. H. Green
Charlestown Navy Yard
Dawsonville
Galveston
Texas
San Luis Pass
Excelsior
Albert Edward
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Watalidin
Dromore Grange
Phippsburg
Post Sedgwick
Naval
Ment
GA. R
Naval Veterans
Front Street
Linden
Daniel Guthrie
Earl Lement
Melvin B. Whitlam
Fred H. Pratt
Guy D
Morse
Bath Bandith Co
Georges
Baker- Post Sedgwick
Kennebec Naval Veterans
Carri
Kateon
Sons of Veterans
Drum Corps
T. W. Hyde
Bath Marine Band
Bath. Co
C. Rep
Robert C. Mitchell
Acadia Lodge
Knights of
Pythias
Lincoln Lodge
LO. O. F
John Marsh
N. G
Children of
Bath Miliary
Naval Orphan Asylum
Post
Knights of Pythias
Lincoln Lodge of Odd Fellows
Oak Grove
City Landing
Central Congregational Church
John 8. Hyde
George CC
DeMott
Central Church
G. A. R Hall
New Meadows
Old Bull Rock Bridge
George
de Mitchel
Sherwin-Williams
Johnson Bros
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