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Schooner on Penobscot Bay (July 2007)
| 1881 | First international telephone conversation, Calais to St Stephen, New Brunswick. |
| 1896 | Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which she wrote while living in Brunswick from 1850-1852, dies in Hartford, Connecticut. | ||
| 1901 | Eastern Maine Insane Hospital opens | ||
| 1903 | Bath Carpenters and Joiners Union, No. 1,663, is organized | ||
| 1909 |
Shipwreck of the four masted schooner Alice E. Clark on a clear afternoon when it struck Coombs Ledge off Islesboro, pierces its hull and sank. |
| 1912 | The community on Malaga Island ceases to exist, by actions of the State of Maine. | ||
| 1933 | By July, 1933, 1,600 enrollees in the Civilian Conservation Corp were in 14 camps from southern Maine to the White Mountain National Forest, to Acadia National Park. | ||
| 1985 |
Bath Iron Works strike by 4,500 employees begins the longest strike in the company’s history, ending on October 8, 1985. |
| 1991 |
Over 10,000 State employees are furloughed, and most State offices are closed for two weeks, in a budget dispute between Governor John McKernan, Jr. and the Legislature. |
| 1999 |
Edwards Dam on the Kennebec River is breached, allowing the river to flow freely through Augusta for the first time in 162 years. |
| 2004 |
Centerville in Washington County is dissolved to become an unorganized township after more than 160 years as a town. |