Once a shipyard at Front and Oak Street
Henry W. Owen Jr recounts Bath's historic shipyard at the Front and Oak Street angle, where McLellan fleet square-riggers were built starting in 1810. It traces James McLellan's move from Monmouth to Bath in 1806, his partnerships, and the growth from mercantile roots to shipbuilding with a fleet of 51 vessels totaling 20,962 tons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry W. Owen, JR
Bath
Front
Oak Streets
Commercial Street
McLellan
James McLellan
Monmouth
Gen. King
Peleg Tallman
Samuel Davis
Gorham
Alexander
Margaret
Lydia Osgood
Hallowell
Ath
Mercantile
Center Street
Music Hall
Washington
Namne
Sylvester & Lee
Simes & Noyes
McLellans
David Elder
Thomas P. Stetson
L. P. Lemont
Hector
Swiftsure
Stetson
McLellan’s
Ellington
Gen. Jackson
Cleopatra
Swhr
Dispatch Packet
Calista
Romeo
Juliet
Agile
Joshua
Harriet
Hospital Board and Auxiliary Meet Wednesday
Semi annual Memorial Hospital Auxiliary meeting set for Oct 7 at 7 30 in Central Congregational church parish house announced after last week’s board of directors meeting. Members and friends asked to donate cooked food for the hospital fair booth contacting Mrs. Brian M Jewett or Mrs Norman Drummond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memorial Hospital Auxiliary
Central Congregational Church
Board of Directors
Hospital
Hospital Fair
Brian M. Jewett
Norman Drummond
James A. Gillies, Jr
Arthur King
M. Dean Shaw
Seth Sullin
Hospital Institute
Waterville
Hospital Auxiliary
National Auxiliary
Gillies
Melvin Henderson
National Association of Hospital Auxiliaries
Philadelphia
Harry S. Truman
Courtney Stover
C. S
Central Church Ladies Aid
B'nai B’rith Chapter
West Bath Sewing Group
West Bath Farm Bureau
New Phone Wire Chief Speaker At Rotary Club Luncheon
William S. Rice new wire chief in New England Telephone district spoke at the Rotary Club luncheon at Central Church parish house. He discussed increased Brunswick area business, the Naval Air Station and Bath Iron Works, and predicted dial telephone in Bath and Waterville by next year with Bath already using it at Iron Works and the Naval Air Station. Local Rotarians present included Kenneth Francisco and Charles B. Doyle. A dish of panned green cabbage seasoned with Worcestershire accompanied corn beef.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William S. Rice
Eng. Tel. & Tel. Co
Rotary Club
Central Church Parish House
Dover-Foxcroft
Naval Air Station
Brunswick
Bath Iron Works
Deep Cut
Damariscotta
Boothbay Harbor
Rice
Bath
Waterville
Iron Works
Kenneth Francisco
Charles B. Doyle
H. A. Given
Lewiston
Homer Nims
Middletown
City Reaches Favorable Terms on Navy Housing Project
After a September City Hall conference with City Manager Nathan C. White Navy officials and local leaders a tentative agreement aims to pay for city services at $4000 with in lieu taxes on personal property under lease plus $20900 federal subsidies for schooling 190 children for a total of about 25000. The plan values the site at roughly 411000 and contrasts with potential local taxation of 23470 for the federally owned project. Navy representatives include Lt Cmdr Paul Polisson and P F Schelfaudt. The proposed 150 unit Lambert Park housing would replace WWII demountables. Dick Groat formerly Duke star and College World Series standout is noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Hall
Nathan C. White
Harold J. Rubin
Navy Department
Bath
White
Navy
Cmdr
Paul Polisson
USNR
P. F. Schelfaudt
First Naval District
Lambert Park
Louis O. Couture
Etta Thurlow
Eastham Guild, Jr
Donald Perry
Ellsworth Vines Defends Tennis Crown in 1932 Final
Ellsworth Vines defeats Henri Cochet 6 4 6 4 6 4 to defend his men’s singles title in the 1932 final. Cochet reaches final but cannot overturn Vines’s serve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellsworth Vines
Henri Cochet
Thai officials visit Bath and Brunswick schools
Two Thai education leaders Abhai Chandavimal and Bhun Thin Attagara toured Bath and Brunswick schools with Superintendent Loring Addison. They praised U S observers and noted Thailand's free textbooks and compulsory education for ages eight to fifteen. The visitors met locally with the Hutchinson family and Bates College-bound Peter Hutchinson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thailand
Siam
Bath
Loring R. Addison
Brunswick Schools
Portland
Abhai Chandavimal
Bhun Thin Attagara
Earl Hutchinson
Maine
Adelaide Campbell
Hutchinson
United States
Addison
Hutchins
Ministry of Education
Abhai
Chulalongkorn University
Oxford University
England
Bhun Thin
Unesco
Pearl Campbell
Donald W. Wilson
Hutchinsons
Peter
Bates College
Richmond Town Manager in Equity Suit Sparks Local Dispute
A bill in equity attacks Richmond selectmen Eben Baker and Carleton H. Curtis over allegedly unauthorized payments and meetings. Selectman Darrell Giberson leads a petition with 14 residents asking for action while Supreme Court Justice Williamson schedules a Bath hearing for Sept 18. Former manager C Royce Woodman also seeks $5 000 breach of contract damages in an Oct term filing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Supreme Court
Robert B. Williamson
Bath
Darrell W. Giberson
Eben Baker
Carleton H. Curtis
Charles E. Danforth
Baker
Curtis
Board of Selectmen
Giberson
C. Royce Woodman
Superior Court
James L. Reid
Robert O’connor
Augusta
Woodman
Litchfield
John W. Quarrington
Architecture Sketch for Bath Junior High Signals New School
Bath planning advances on a 30 room junior high funded by a 455 000 loan after a September 8 referendum approved leasing with the Maine School Building Authority. Federal grant of 235 236 will fund 10 percent upfront with rest by construction progress and bond sales targeted for late September and mid October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine School Building Authority
Loring R. Addison
Neil Ackland
Office of Social Security Agency
Boston
Ackland
Addison
City of
Bath
State Armory
Lincoln Street
Kelley Athletic Field
Watch Out for Checks Warns Police Merchants
Police warn merchants to watch for a man cashing checks marked no account. A $40 check drawn on Manufacturer’s National Bank of Lewiston was turned in Saturday morning. Described as dressed as a bus driver, similar passes have appeared in Gardiner and Lewiston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Bank of Lewiston and
Phaisweeds
Gardiner
Léwiston
Baths Highway Department Well Equipped Today
The Bath streets department outlines a $144 215 annual total including surplus for new gear and pay. With 17 full time staff led by Superintendent Arthur R Avery, the unit lists many machines, winter prep, and sand hauling from a Durham pit as it readies for snow removal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highway and Sewer Department
Bath
City Treasury
Arthur R. Avery
John C. DeGroot
Durham
Walters
Chevrolet
G.M.C
Dodge
Oliver
Allis-Chalmers
Bath and Georgetown roots in early Maine church history
An amateur history traces the Phippsburg Congregational Church from 1730s Georgetown beginnings through 1750s splits and church moves. It covers settlement, Presbyterian and Congregational rivalries, land grants by Patrick Drummond and Samuel Denny, and the evolving coastal parishes at Pleasant Cove, Arrowsic, and Woolwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phippsburg Congregational Church
Parsons
Maine
Popham Beach
George Popham
Fort St. George
Richard Seymour
Popham
Sagadahoc-Kennebec
Falmouth-Portland
Province of
Massachusetts
Brunswick
Richmond
Sebastian Rasle
Arrowsi
Joseph Baxter
Harvard
Medfield
William MacClanathan
Pleasant Cove
Arrowsie
Parker's Island
Georgetown
Nequasset
Woolwich
Phippsburg
Bath
West Bath
Ireland
Robert Temple
Col
David Dunbar
Patrick Drummond
Alexander Drummond
George
William Rogers
James McCobb
Samuel Denny
Daniel Farnham
Arrowsic
Long Reach
Witch Spring
Old North Church
Winter Street
Calvin Montague Clark
Denny Farm
Also Mentioned on This Page
Front and
Oak Street
M’lellan
Rotary Clubs
Bath District
Pittsburgh Pirates
Dick Groat
Omaha
Duke University
America
Williamson
Joe
Lower
Kennebec
Charles V. Minott, JR
Phippsburgh Congregational Church
New England
Fiddler’s Reach
Arthur Noble
James Morse
Church of Scotland
Oach
Colonel Noble
Patrick
James Drummond
Thomas
John Lemont
William Campbell
John Minot
Richman
John Parker
David Gilmore
James
Thomas Stinson
Jonathan Preble
James Savage
Thomas Westbrook
Falmouth
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