Hometown USA

A Pageant of the State of Maine, a two-hour show, was performed to celebrate the 1928 dedication of the new Cariton Bridge across the Kennebec River at Bath.

Ten stools were available at the counter of Jack's Lunch in Bath in 1923.

In 1934, Jack's Lunch in Bath was the first Maine diner to install a cigarette vending machine.

Eighty-two destroyers were built for the U.S. Navy at Maine's Bath Iron Works during World War II.

Operatic soprano Emma Eames grew up in Bath.

Bath poet Richard Aldridge (1930-1994) wrote, "I have never been a member of any literary establishment. I am flying in the dark as much as a young person starting out."

The Shipbuilders is the name of the athletic teams of Morse High School in Bath.

Maine's Route 1 is closed to cyclists on the section between Brunswick and Bath.

In 1937 the America's Cup racing yacht "Ranger" was built at Bath Iron Works on the Kennebec River.

Former major-league catcher Val Picinich, of Nobleboro, managed the Bath Iron Works baseball team in 1942.

The Maine-built yacht "Ranger," (Bath Iron Works) won the America's Cup four times.

The owner of the Maine-built (at Bath Iron Works) racing yacht "Ranger" was Harold "Mike" Vanderbilt.

The Maine Maritime Museum in Bath has a lobster exhibit.

Maine's northernmost nesting site for piping plovers and least terns is Reid State Park, at the southeast end of Georgetown Island, off the coast of Bath.

Town Nicknames: Shipping City

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