About the Bay

History

Merrymeeting Bay has played a role in human history for thousands of years.
Begin your study of that history here, and add to it as your research develops!

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Merrymeeting Bay's Role in History

• A Quick History of Merrymeeting Bay
  
  
• A Time Line of Merrymeeting Bay History
  
  
• Historical Resources Around Merrymeeting Bay
  
  
• Industrial History of Merrymeeting Bay
  
  
• Everyday Life Around Merrymeeting Bay
  
  
• Oral Histories of Merrymeeting Bay
  
  
• Digital Archive: Merrymeeting Bay Project (No longer available)
  
  
• Bowdoinham History
  
  
• Kennebec Range Lights
  
  
• Lost Lighthouse Found (The Abagadasset Point Range Lights)
  
  
• The Abagadasset Point Range Lights' Keeper
  
  
• Peterson Canal
  
  
• J. C. Humphreys and his Merrymeeting Bay Shipyard
  
  
• A report on the current environmental and resource status of the New Meadows River and Surronding Watershed
  
  
• History of Reed's Point (Merrymeeting Bay Wildlife Management Area, Bowdoinham) and Reed Family
  
  
• Fort Richmond Account Book of John Minot, Truckmaster, 1737-1742
  
  
• The History of the Wars of New-England with the Eastern Indians. Samuel Penhallow, 1726 [Excerpt]