In the early s Popham beach became a tourist attraction and steamboats would carry people down the New Meadows River from Bath to visit. Phippsburg is rich in history, like most places in Maine, and there is a great museum in the town proper where you can learn more about its past.
Malaga Island sits on the west side of the peninsula and has a story to tell that some feel should never be told, involving a mixed-race community of about 45 people who were reportedly evicted by the state in The island is now a part of the Freedom Trail, and today is deserted except for a few fisherman who store their equipment there.
The peninsula is home to many trails, scenic drives, beaches, campgrounds and places to eat. You can hike, canoe, swim, camp, kayak, fish, play golf and tennis.
Popham Beach State Park is located nearby Fort Popham and offers a great beach for everyone to enjoy, along with picnic areas. It is right next to the Albert F. Totman Library. It has numerous collections and artifacts, so plan to spend a couple of hours there. Be advised it is only open from 2 to 4 p. It is a short foot walk up the hill to the first of three batteries, and well worth it. This fort was built in during the Civil War. It is a circular fort situated at the end of Route Easy access, but parking can be difficult to find on the weekends when it is busiest.
Dorothy Pye began the business in by baking pies, and it has grown into the business she now operates with a lot of loyal customers. On July 4, several members of the Presbyterian Church at Fort Noble, on Fiddler's Reach, withdrew from that church and gathered a Congregational Church at a meetinghouse beside what is now the Newtown Cemetery on Arrowsic Island.
The new church was known as the First Church of Georgetown until , and its first pastor was the Rev. Ezekiel Emerson of Uxbridge who served from until his death in As more church members began to live on the mainland, it was ruled impractical to row through dangerous ice flows on the Kennebec River in the winter to attend worship services.
Consequently a new church building was completed on the mainland in , on land donated by Mrs. Mary McCobb. In , Phippsburg was set off from Georgetown and incorporated, and the name of the church changed to the Congregational Church of Phippsburg. Our region comprises the Tidewater Kennebec River section.
Maine's First Ship. Are you ready to delve further into the history of our communities or gather information for family genealogy?
Use these resources:. Albert F. Totman Library serves Phippsburg. Bowdoin College's Hawthorne-Longfellow Library. Bowdoinham Public Library. Bridge Academy Public Library serves Dresden. Curtis Memorial Library serves Brunswick and Harpswell. Edgecomb Historical Society. Georgetown Historical Society.
Laura E. Richards Library serves Georgetown. Harpswell Historical Society. Lincoln County Historical Society. Also the home of Bath Historical Society. Contact for walking and driving tours. Phippsburg Historical Society. Sagadahoc Preservation Inc. Topsham Public Library. Woolwich Historical Society. Experience the majesty and mystery of our lighthouses, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, that continue to shine on our seafaring heritage.
Doubling Point Octagonal tower on a granite pier connected to shore by walkway. Doubling Pt. Privately owned, access allowed. Doubling Point Range Lights. East bank of Kennebec River, Arrowsic. Scalps were valuable and few were overlooked. The Mohawks burned the village including the Chapel. It is reported that Colonel Waldron, under a truce flag, captured Many were sold into slavery and others hung on the Boston Common. Committee appointed, Boston to meet with the Kennebeck, Wawenock and Aresgontacook Indians to "ratify a treaty between them and the Penobscot Indians and to settle the question of the Eastern Lands as far as possible to the satisfaction of the said tribes".
Resettlement attempt at Small Point. Samuel Denny hired by General Court to have town meeting, elect officials, collection of taxes. Denny was elected Town Clerk. Five selectmen elected. One was Col. Hiis daughter Sarah, married Col. William Lithgow - builder and commander Ft.
Halifax and later a judge. William Lithgow, Jr. William Lithgow became highest ranking military man from Phippsburg. Lithgow, Jr. District Attorney District of Maine in and twice elected state senator. There were also elections of fence viewers, titheingmen, a constable and tax collector. There was a new church at the Lithgow farm at Fort Noble and some wanted to call the high northern part of town Prospect.
It was called Northampton during the previous century. The southern part of Phippsburg was called Harwich in the s and had customary officers but no legal incorporation. It had been some time since the settlers returned and started settling at Small Point Harbor, and they found themselves included in the North Yarmouth Grant which meant they had to go to church in North Yarmouth which was way across the rough open waters of Casco Bay.
Road from Small Point to the Center. Also road starting at Bath, going around the head of Winnegance Creek and ending at Dromore. The McIntires were early settlers around the s coming from Massachusetts. He was a lumberman and fisherman. Sprague bought land from Miriam Blethen. William Wallace was from Ipswich, Massachusetts.
Wallace is said to have common ancestry with Sir. William Wallace the Scottish Chieftain of whom Braveheart was written. They built their home near the current West Point Church. Many descendents of this first Wallace family still reside in the area and have become highline fishermen well known for their skill and cunning on the sea.
For many years West Point had the record for catching the most and the biggest tuna fish along the Maine coast. Steven Lowell settles in the Basin Area of Sebasco. Revolutionary War solider, Jonathan Morse is also buried there. From the: Commissioned Officers of Col. Ebenezer Toothaker, Ensign. William Lithgow, Sr.
He was a gunsmith and trader at Arrowsic Island. He later commanded Fort Richmond and Fort Halifax. He llived in Georgetown and was thought to be somewhat of nobility along the Kennebec. The farm has only had a few owners, the Lithgows, and the Morses, and now a family that inherited it from his Morse ancestors.
South was the William Wallace land. Totman had bear problems near his home in West Point. Wallace shot the bear with an old musket that was claimed to be five feet high and over 20 lbs.
Samuel Dalling bought acres and half a sawmill in Phippsburg on Dec. General George Washington decides to capture Quebec and sends an expedition under the command of General Benedict Arnold. Forces arrive on the Kennebec under command of Arnold.
Ten companies, mostly from Maine and Massachusetts and three companies from Virginia totaled 1, men. Two of the men that marched and later became famous were Daniel Morgan and Aaron Burr.
Also a new road to Stoneybrook was laid. The Morse family owned the property until recent years when it was acquired by the St. There was a thriving business and the berries were sent to Bath, Brunswick and Portland by a sloop run by George Pye. Eventually the sea reclaimed the land ending the business.
Salt was made at two areas of town. This was the Lower Salt works with old brick ovens. People would boil seawater in big copper and iron kettles to extract the salt. This was used to salt fish which they shipped out and to preserve game and other foods. Grist Mill - built on the site of the old mill built by James McCobb. Set up to saw lumber and card wool. Formerly a saltarsh. Mark L. The town is named for Sir William Phips of Woolwich.
Phips lived from The Sylvester House held classes for men in the fall and winter and classes for women in the spring and summer. Lower District School in Dromore.. The first teacher was Nancy Wheeler of Bangor.
Mark Hill removed from office as Collector of the Port of Bath. Maine people did not want to enter the union with a slave state and this was the beginning of his demise. In Phippsburg voted against separation from Massachusetts. Aliquippa Inn and Trading Post built. Land given at Center by Mark Hill to build a brick schoolhouse. This still stands on private property. This was built as the Percy family had become so large in the area.
The island was named Horse Island originally because horses from the ice making business at Cornelius Pond were kept there in the off season. Four sawmills under the same roof lost in fire.
Owners: Rollins, Reed, Duley, and Jewell estates. Special Town Meeting - exempted from tax for 10 years and remitted back taxes on the site to anyone or any company who could rebuild the dam and convert it to an ice pond as a means to created business and employment to those that lost out in the fire of the sawmills.
John G. Morse I of Winnegance, and a Bath partner, bought the old mill privilege and dam and built a new dam. Drummond he had owned the mill and tidal basin there. Afterwards this area was known as the Drummond Ice Pond. Ice House Boarding House and storage houses with a 40, tons storage capacity built at the Center. Near the Center Pond can be seen remains of the old pier where schooners came to load up ice Just past the pier and north is a small cove where the Franks S.
Bowker and Son Shipyard were. It later was destroyed by fire. The Upper Chapel was built about the same time on a hill near the lower chapel. The Upper Chapel was used by a holiness society, then Pentecostal groups, and much later by the Nazarenes who now use the Sebasco schoolhouse which they bought and converted into a church when the current elementary school was built. Beginning of a Fire Department. A month later veteran No.
The launching of the Marcus L. Urann was the last vessel launched from the Minot shipyard. Williams, December 28, , Phippsburg Observer:. These Indians paddled their heavily ladened canoes into the river, beached them, and unloaded there to set up tents which constitute their camp for the summer.
They sold baskets, bows, and arrows, moccasins, toy birch bark canoes, and other items too numerous to mention. Nathan A.
The previous owner, Merrill started Rock Garden Inn. Sebasco Downeaster Seafoods, Inc. Descendents of Sewall still own the island. Site of Fort St. George - the original settlement is confirmed at the tip of Sabino Head near the mouth of the Kennebec River. After several weeks of digging Dr. Annual excavations begin - focus on locating specific structures within the fort.
They wished to determine the accuracy of the map drawn by John Hunt and dated October 8, The map turned out to be extremely accurate. The form, dimensions, and construction of the storehouse were exactly as drawn by Hunt. Brain and his assistants find five more post molds.
Archeologists locate the home of Sir Raleigh Gilbert. Among those items recovered are fragments of a 17th century, German, stoneware jug and fancy buttons. Brain and assistants find numerous artifacts at the original Popham colony site including: shards of North Devon ceramic from England, salt-glazed Bellamine stoneware from Germany, pieces of bottle glass, fragments of plate armor, a caulking iron, lead musket balls, gun parts, numerous glass trade beads, fragments of liquor bottles, drinking glasses, buttons of glass and beads of jet.
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