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Maine Maritime Museum, formerly the Bath Marine Museum, offers some exhibits about Maine's maritime heritage, culture and the role Maine has played in regional and global maritime activities. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Maine Maritime Museum has a large and diverse collection, made up of millions of documents, artifacts and pieces of artwork and includes an ...
Aymar, Brandt (1967). A pictorial treasury of the marine museums of the world.New York, New York: Crown Publishers, Inc. OCLC 1303121. Howe, Hartley Edward (1987).
The William T. Donnell House is a historic house museum, part of the Maine Maritime Museum on Washington Street in Bath, Maine. It was built in 1868 for one of the city's leading shipbuilders of the late 19th century, and has remained relatively unaltered since his occupancy. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1]
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Portland Harbor Museum, Portland, merged with the Maine Maritime Museum in June 2010; Rier Sardine Museum, Lubec [46] Shore Village Museum, Rockland, lighthouse collection relocated to the Maine Lighthouse Museum, [47] [48] Webb Museum of Vintage Fashion, Island Falls [49] Wells Auto Museum, Wells, closed in 2013 [50]
The clipper ships built in Bath sailed to ports around the world. [5] The last commercial enterprise to build wooden ships in the city was the Percy & Small Shipyard, whose schooner Wyoming is considered the largest wooden ship in world history, [6] and which was acquired for preservation in 1975 by the Maine Maritime Museum. [7]
The camera also shows some of the top branches of the trees shifting back and forth amid the shaking. According to the USGS, the largest known New England earthquakes occurred in 1638 with a ...
Frank Albion Small was born in Bath on April 17, 1865, as the youngest son of shipmaster Joseph Small. Graduating from Bath High School, Small worked initially for a shipbroker and insurance agent, then took a job with the Kelley, Spear & Co. shipyard in Bath. Small would serve as Bath mayor in 1911 and 1912.