About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: People from Bath, Maine, Elbridge Streeter Brooks, Charles W. Morse, Edward Page Mitchell, Emma Eames, McDonald Clarke, Silas Soule, Morse High School, Georgia Cayvan, John Hart, Henry Gannett, Francis H. Fassett, Sumner Sewall, George Frederick Magoun, Charles Frederick Hughes, Arthur Sewall, Francis B. Stockbridge, Franklin Simmons, William Zorach, William King, Thomas W. Hyde, The Hyde Schools, Claude Demetrius, Glenn Cummings, Doubling Point Range Lights, Robert Jaffe, William Bacon Stevens, John Adams Jackson, Doubling Point Light, WBCI, William Maxwell Reed, William Smith, Bobby Messenger, William LeBaron Putnam, Freeman H. Morse, David Bronson, Samuel Davis, Benjamin Randall, Harold M. Sewall, U.S. Customhouse and Post Office, Peleg Tallman, Nathaniel S. Berry, Winter Street Church, Winnegance, Maine, Bath School Department. Excerpt: Bath is a city in Sagadahoc County, Maine, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 9,266. It is the county seat of Sagadahoc County. Located on the Kennebec River, Bath is a port of entry with a good harbor. The city is popular with tourists, many drawn by its 19th-century architecture. It is home to the Bath Iron Works and Heritage Days Festival, held annually on the Fourth of July weekend. Bath is part of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area. Abenaki Indians called the area Sagadahoc, meaning "mouth of big river." It was a reference to the Kennebec River, which Samuel de Champlain explored in 1605. Popham Colony was established in 1607 downstream, together with Fort St. George. The settlement failed due to harsh weather and lack of leadership, but the colonists built the New World's first oceangoing vessel constructed by English shipwrights, the Virginia of Sagadahoc. It provided passage back to England. The nex...
