History Room Collections

Archival Collections

• Patten Free Library collection of manuscripts, photograph collections, original research and small manuscript collections, maps, and dozens of uncatalogued collections. Ask librarian for assistance.
• Bath Historical Society collections. Ask librarian for assistance.
• West Bath Historical Society collections. Ask librarian for assistance.

Library Collections

• Morse High School yearbooks
• City directories
• Sagadahoc Preservation Inc. property surveys for Bath and the South End of Bath
• City and town reports
• Family Histories
• Vital records
• Cemetery records
• Town histories
• Serials
• Town History Series DVDs
• Microfilm
  • Newspapers
  • Federal census
  • Passenger lists
  • Vital records
  • Cemetery inscriptions
  • Tax records
• Vertical Files
  • Subject and biographical

Please note that none of the collections housed in the History Room circulate, but some items are also available for check out downstairs in PFL’s nonfiction collection.