Woolwich is a town in Sagadahoc County, Maine, United States.

Woolwich is a suburb of the city of Bath located on the opposite shore of Merrymeeting Bay.

They would purchase the land in 1639 from the sachem Mowhotiwormet, commonly known as Chief Robinhood, who lived near Nequasset Falls.

At Day's Ferry on the Kennebec River, Richard Hammond operated a fortified trading post.

His household of 16, including servants, workmen and stepchildren, conducted a lucrative fur trade with the Indians.

But in the first blow of King Philip's War in the area, on the evening of August 13, 1676, warriors ingratiated themselves into the stockaded trading post, then killed the elderly Hammond and his stepson as they returned for the night.

[3][4][5] Nequasset was attacked during King William's War, when inhabitants were again massacred or forced to abandon their homes.

It was assailed again in 1723 during Dummer's War, when the Norridgewocks and their 250 Indian allies from Canada, incited by the French missionary Sebastien Rale, burned dwellings and killed cattle.

[7][8] Nequasset had become a part of Georgetown, but on October 20, 1759, the plantation was set off and incorporated as a separate district by the Massachusetts General Court, named after Woolwich, England.

[13] The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers twice widened Upper Hell Gate on the Sasanoa River, which separates Woolwich from Arrowsic.

Separated by water, it is near Bowdoinham to the west, Bath to the southwest, Arrowsic to the south, and Westport to the southeast.

Ninth through twelfth grade students attend Morse High School in Bath.