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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ69_the-casemate-key-to-a-forts-design_Phippsburg-ME.html
Like most other masonry forts built in the United States during the middle 1800s, Fort Popham is made up of a series of casemates. These are large enclosed spaces with high, arched ceilings and places for cannons to fire through wall openings. All…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ5S_fort-popham-guardian-of-the-kennebec_Phippsburg-ME.html
Fort Popham is a Third System style granite fort built by the U.S. War Department beginning in 1862. Modifications were made and the fort was used again in the Spanish American War and in World War 1. Another fort, probably wooden, existed here an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ5R_fort-popham-state-historic-site_Phippsburg-ME.html
Since construction commenced in 1861, the entrance to the Kennebec River has been guarded by Fort Popham, a Civil War era fort that was built to protect the shipbuilding interests in the upriver City of Bath, as well as the state capital in August…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ5Q_site-of-the-blacksmith-shop-1897-1913_Bath-ME.html
The blacksmith shop was the first building constructed by Percy & Small after they purchased the old Blaisdell shipyard site from William Donnell in 1896. It was furnished with forges, bellows, and anvils for fabricating large quantities of ironwo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ5I_mill-joiner-shop-1899_Bath-ME.html
This sturdy industrial building housed a sawmill for cutting and shaping ship timbers and planks, and a joiner shop for the finer woodworking that went into vessels' cabins, deckhouses, railings, and interiors. In 1909, the shed addition on the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ5H_transformer-house-1909_Bath-ME.html
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 t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ5G_shipyard-owners-home_Bath-ME.html
William T. Donnell married Henry P. Hitchcock's daughter Clara in 1860, and bought this house and shipyard from Clara's mother in 1869. The proximity of residence to workplace was unusual. From this house, W. T. Donnell overlooked his shipyard, op…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ4T_launch-day_Bath-ME.html
Launching featured tradtion, ritual, spectators, and celebration. But it also brought technical challenge and danger to workers and vessel alike. In preparation, a launching crew built a pair of sliding (or launching) ways beneath the schooner.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ4Q_deckhouse-from-steamer-winapie-ca-1909_Bath-ME.html
In 1920, the Percy & Small shipyard did its last significant ship work. The steamer Winapie, built in New Hampshire during World War One, visited for conversion into a tank barge. The shipyard removed this three-compartment deckhouse, which held t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ4N_site-of-the-north-ways-1901_Bath-ME.html
Two building slips, or ways, were important features of the shipyard. The North Ways were prepared as a second building slip, on land purchased in a 1901 expansion. They measured at least 350' long by 50' wide - the largest wooden shipbuilding sli…
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