Keywords: Blue Hill Bay
Item 33854
Blue Hill Inn construction, Blue Hill, 1892
Contributed by: Blue Hill Historical Society Date: 1892 Location: Blue Hill Media: Photograph on paperboard
Item 33494
Mill Island, Blue Hill, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Blue Hill Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: Blue Hill Media: Postcard
Exhibit
Port of Portland's Custom House and Collectors of Customs
The collector of Portland was the key to federal patronage in Maine, though other ports and towns had collectors. Through the 19th century, the revenue was the major source of Federal Government income. As in Colonial times, the person appointed to head the custom House in Casco Bay was almost always a leading community figure, or a well-connected political personage.
Exhibit
Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
Site Page
Blue Hill, Maine - Swimming, Blue Hill, 1907
"Swimming, Blue Hill, 1907 Contributed by Blue Hill Public Library Description Swimming at the Bathing Beach in Blue Hill during the…"
Site Page
Blue Hill, Maine - Picnicking, Blue Hill, 1907
"Picnicking, Blue Hill, 1907 Contributed by Blue Hill Public Library Description Picnicking along the coast of Blue Hill in 1907."
