Georgetown Historical Society

06/15/2025

Join us on Tuesday for our first program of the summer! And G'towners - there are some fabulous old photos of Dave & Emily...just sayin'!

06/08/2025

Georgetown Historical Society is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its publication, The Georgetown Tide, with a special exhibition opening at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 24, at 20 Bay Point Road. The exhibition “50 years, 50 Treasures: Selections from the GHS Collections” takes visitors back through...

01/30/2025

GHS will be closed on Saturday February 1st to allow our volunteers to attend the Patten Town History series.

Our own Lauren Bray will be presenting "Josephine Newman: The Woman and her Sanctuary" During her long life in Georgetown, Josephine Newman shared her deep knowledge and love of the Maine landscape and preserved her land for us to enjoy ever since. Learn about the woman who gave us this legacy of a 100+ acre sanctuary. Presented by Lauren Bray of Georgetown.

Registration is required to attend in person due to space constraints and the presentation will be aired live on Patten's YouTube channel. More information can be found at https://patten-lib.libcal.com/event/13831641?hs=a.

During her long life in Georgetown, Josephine Newman shared her deep knowledge and love of the Maine landscape and preserved her land for us to enjoy ever since. Learn about the...

01/10/2025

Bath’s Town History Series returns to revisit local lore

12/17/2024

Happy Holidays! GHS will be open for your last-minute shopping tomorrow (Wednesday the 28th) and Saturday the 21st. We will then be closed to be with our families on 12/25, 12/28 and 1/1.

04/23/2024

BHS Members and the public are cordially invited to our 2024 Annual Meeting & Program. We are thrilled to have Maine State Historian Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr. to present his research on Bath, Maine's very own 19th century ship carvers, including Freeman Morse, Charles A.L. Sampson (also well known as the husband of Sarah Sampson), and William Southworth.

Mark your calendar and plan to join us on Saturday, April 27th at 10:30am at the Patten Free Library Community Room!

(Photos below show the Western Belle and the Belle of Oregon, by Sampson.)

04/18/2024

Share memories & support the family

04/17/2024