46 original 1870 BATH TIMES newspapers MAINE 143 years old - on nice rag paper

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46 original 1870 BATH TIMES newspapers MAINE 143 years old - on nice rag paper:
$150.00

Please visit our store at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at PHOTOs-----Lot of forty-six (46)COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPERs,theBath Daily Times(Bath, MAINE) datedbetween Oct 29 and Dec 28, 1870. This is a lot of 46 different dated issues.

Contents include National and International news as well as LOCALBath, MAINEnews and ads from 143 years ago.

This is a real TIME MACHINE that takes the reader back to Bath, MAINEin 1870 some 143 years ago- 5 yerars AFTER the end of the American Civil War !! Great gift for a present-day resident of Bath, MAINEinterested in the early local history of that city.

Bath is a city in Sagadahoc County, Maine, in the United States.It is the county seat of Sagadahoc County. Bath is a port of entry with a good harbor formed by the Kennebec River estuary. 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–offerdeford, 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 ocean going vessel constructed by English shipwrights, the Virginia of Sagadahoc. It provided passage back to England.

The next settlement at Sagadahoc was about 1660, when land titles were purchased from an Indian sagamore known as Robinhood. Incorporated as part of Georgetown in 1753, Bath was set off and incorporated as a town on February 17, 1781. It was named by the postmaster, Dummer Sewell, after Bath in Somerset, England. In 1844, a portion of the town was set off to create West Bath. On June 14, 1847, Bath was incorporated as a city, and in 1854 designated county seat. Land was annexed from West Bath in 1855.

Several industries developed in the city, including lumber, iron and brass, with trade in ice and coal. But Bath is renowned for shipbuilding, which began here in 1743 when Jonathan Philbrook and his sons built 2 vessels. Since then, roughly 5,000 vessels have been launched in the area, which at one time had more than 200 shipbuilding firms. Bath became the nation\'s fifth largest seaport by the mid-19th century, producing clipper ships that sailed to ports around the world. The last commercial enterprise to build wooden ships in the city was the Percy & Small Shipyard, which was acquired for preservation in 1971 by the Maine Maritime Museum. But the most famous shipyard is the Bath Iron Works, founded in 1884 by Thomas W. Hyde. It has built hundreds of wooden and steel vessels, mostly warships for the U.S. Navy. During World War II, Bath Iron Works launched a new ship every 17 days. The shipyard is a major regional employer, and operates today as a division of the General Dynamics Corporation.

The city is noted for its Federal, Greek Revival, and Italianate architecture, including the 1858 Custom House and Post Office designed by Ammi B. Young. Bath is sister city to Shariki (now Tsugaru) in Japan, where the locally-built full rigged ship Cheseborough was wrecked in 1889. Scenes from the movies Message in a Bottle (1999) and The Man Without a Face (1993) were filmed in the city.

Very goodcondition. Printed on nice rag paper. These isues are notbound together but are cleanly separated at the spine.This listing includes thelot of 46 different dated newspapersas described above.STEPHEN A. GOLDMAN HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS stands behind all of the items that we sell with a no questions asked, money back guarantee. Every item we sell is an original newspaper printed on the date indicated at the beginning of its description. U.S. buyers paypriority mail postage which includes waterproof plastic and a heavy cardboard flat to protect your purchase from damage in the mail. International postage is quoted when we are informed as to where the package is to be sent. We do combine postage (to reduce postage costs) for multiple purchases sent in the same package.We acceptpayment by PAYPAL as well as by CREDIT CARD (Visa and Master Card) through secureon-line PROPAY. We list hundreds of rare newspapers with dates from 1570 through 2004 on each week and we ship packages twice a week. This is truly SIX CENTURIES OF HISTORY that YOU CAN OWN!

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