BATH

The Sagadahoc History and Genealogy Room announces its eleventh annual Town History Series, jointly sponsored by the Patten Free Library and the Bath Historical Society. On five Saturday mornings in January and February, from 10:30-11:30 a.m.., people from the five towns that support the Library will present aspects of their towns’ histories in the Community Room of the Patten Free Library. This year’s Series will be dedicated to Daniel Donovan, a very significant contributor to the History Room. And once again, Raymond James, Inc. will be the financial sponsor of the Series. The Series will be filmed for showing on local TV.

On Saturday, January 31, the town of Arrowsic will take the stage as Nancy Sferra of the Nature Conservancy speaks on the “History of the Mill Pond Area”.

Nancy will be talking about the history of the Mill Pond area on the eastern side of Arrowsic, where The Nature Conservancy recently purchased some land for preservation. Back in the mid-19th century, Mill Pond was the site of a productive lumber mill, the Crosby Mill. Nancy’s talk will include details of that sawmill operation, as well as some archaeological objects found when The Nature Conservancy razed a building on this site.

Upcoming town history talks will include:

February 7 — West Bath: David Hennessey, “Raising Oysters in West Bath” February 14 — Bath: Charlie Burden, “A History of Bath Newspapers: Loving the Bath Daily Times” February 21 — Woolwich: WHS Board, “Woolwich and the Civil War: A Story told in Artifacts”