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   <title>Bath, from its Bicentennial to 1955</title>
   <exhibit>Eastern North Carolina Digital History Exhibit</exhibit>
   <project>Bath Tricentennial</project>
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<list_item><creation_date>1904-00-00</creation_date><int link="wrpg1">Souvenir calender / Ye Old Bath Town, 1705-1905</int></list_item>
<list_item><creation_date>1921-03-03</creation_date><int link="wrpi">Beaufort County Road Commission to William Blount Rodman</int></list_item>
<list_item><creation_date>1921-06-08</creation_date><int link="wrpj">R.A. Braddy to William Blount Rodman Jr.</int></list_item>
<list_item><creation_date>1921-06-10</creation_date><int link="wrpk">R.A. Braddy to William Blount Rodman Jr.</int></list_item>
<list_item><creation_date>1926-00-00</creation_date><int link="wrph1">Forget-me-nots of Bath N.C.</int></list_item>
<list_item><creation_date>1928-00-01</creation_date><int link="jgpa">Resolution on new Bath Creek bridge</int></list_item>
<list_item><creation_date>1938-06-16</creation_date><int link="jgpc">Charles C. Crittenden to Junius D. Grimes</int></list_item>
<list_item><creation_date>1938-06-29</creation_date><int link="jgpb">Junius D. Grimes to Charles C. Crittenden</int></list_item>
<list_item><creation_date>1938-07-26</creation_date><int link="jgpd">Charles C. Crittenden to Governor Clyde R. Hoey</int></list_item>
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   <description type="category">By the twentieth century, people became more and more aware of Bath&rsquo;s historical interest. Perhaps sparked by the production of a 1905 calendar commemorating the town&rsquo;s 200th anniversary of incorporation, moves were made to preserve Bath&rsquo;s historic structures. However, both the poverty of the area and lack of funding from outside sources contributed to the lack of progress on such plans. By 1939, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, originally built in 1734-35 had been stabilized and restored, but none of the other historic buildings in town had received similar attention.</description>
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