The Kennebec River is the largest river in Maine. Originating from Moosehead Lake, the river flows 190 miles through Somerset, Kennebec and Sagadahoc Counties to the Gulf of Maine at Popham Beach. The Kennebec was a primary travel route for . . . — — Map (db m125013) HM
The Kennebec River is the largest river in Maine. Originating from Moosehead Lake, the river flows 190 miles through Somerset, Kennebec and Sagadahoc Counties to the Gulf of Maine at Popham Beach. The Kennebec was a primary travel route for Native . . . — — Map (db m125019) HM
Since before Columbus discovered the New World, the Kennebec River has been the scene of settlement and conflict. While Fort Halifax represents the most northern military outpost in the region, it is only one of more than twenty forts that have . . . — — Map (db m52195) HM
Since the 1580s, England had been challenging Spain's claim to land in the Western Hemisphere. Although groups of would-be colonists attempted to plant a settlement on Roanoke Island, in what became North Carolina, it was not until 1606 that King . . . — — Map (db m295124) HM
These portraits of Bath Officer Lawrence and his killer were published in the November 21, 1885 Bath Independent, the day after Wilkinson's execution. "Billy" Lawrence, a three-year veteran of the police force, had spent years at sea, but . . . — — Map (db m286344) HM
The Percy & Small shipyard was electrified from its establishment in 1896. In 1909, the Sagadahoc Power & Light Company began delivering higher-voltage power to the shipyard on a separate industrial line. The transformer stepped down the voltage . . . — — Map (db m52083) HM
1. Joseph Berry's Fort - West Bath; 2. Col. Noble's Fort - Pleasant Cove, built in 1734, a stockade with a guard house at each corner and another within the enclosure. "Without its protection the farmers did not dare work their fields."; 3. Clarke . . . — — Map (db m52199) HM
Echoing with the clamor of hammers and saws building ships and homes; Bath was booming by 1850s, as was the expanding American nation. 100 years before, the community of just forty families, known as "Long Reach," separated from Georgetown as its . . . — — Map (db m286255) HM
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