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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ4M_kennebec-river_Bath-ME.html
This major waterway, although in places still undeveloped, remains an important artery for water traffic. The river flows 164 miles from its source at Moosehead Lake to the Atlantic Ocean, 12 miles south of here at Popham. Kennebec is a Wabanaki w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ4J_the-fitting-out-pier-1906_Bath-ME.html
At the fitting-out pier new vessels received their equipment and finishing work. This pier had a ramp built into its southern side, to land the large timbers and spars that were floated down the river from the railroad yards.
The original 1898 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ4C_wyoming-sculpture_Bath-ME.html
The white-painted steel structure in front of you is a sculpture representing the six-mast schooner Wyoming, the largest wooden vessel built in the United States. The sculpture stands where the schooner was built in 1909, but somewhat closer to th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ4A_site-of-the-south-ways-ca-1867_Bath-ME.html
A good shipbuilding site has a natural 4? to 12? slope down to deep water.
Using this grade, building slips (ways) were constructed on cleared and graded areas. These were wooden foundations to accommodate the hull under construction and the la…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ49_wyoming-sculpture_Bath-ME.html
The white-painted steel structure in front of you is a sculpture representing the bow and stern of the six-mast schooner Wyoming, the largest wooden vessel built in the United States. The sculpture stands where the schooner was built in 1909, but …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ48_bath-iron-works_Bath-ME.html
Known locally as "BIW" or "The Yard," Bath Iron Works has been building ships on the same site since 1890. Over 420 vessels have been built there, including cargo vessels, fishing vessels, yachts, tugs, barges, and naval vessels. Between 1984 and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ47_the-caulkers-shed-1899_Bath-ME.html
This workshop was built in 1899 for Charles Oliver and his caulking gang. Here they stored their tools and some of the miles of oakum and cotton yard needed to make vessels' seams watertight. From the steps, Mr. Oliver could keep an eagle eye on h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ3N_the-pitch-oven-1902_Bath-ME.html
Caulkers used huge quantities of pitch to pay (or seal) the vessels' deck seams. In the kettles set into this freestanding brick oven, they melted crystallized pine resin over scrap-wood fires, which they carried in buckets to the decks of the sch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ35_the-mould-loft-1917_Bath-ME.html
Design is the first step in shipbuilding, and it took place in a mould loft. Skilled modelers shaped the schooner's hull in miniature by carving a half-model. They scaled the model's lines full-size on the loft floor, then transferred these lines …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ2N_bath-civil-war-memorial_Bath-ME.html
Honor the Brave
Erected by the City of BathA.D. 1867and dedicated tothe memory of the sonswho diedthat the nation might live
[Weathered quote]
[Roll of Honored Dead]