Keywords: Colonial Light House
Item 18524
Wood Island Lighthouse, ca. 1910
Contributed by: An individual through Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse Date: circa 1910 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 16414
Aerobeacon at Wood Island Lighthouse, Biddeford, ca. 1980
Contributed by: Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse Date: circa 1980 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
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
Lincoln County through the Eastern Eye
The Penobscot Marine Museum’s photography collections include nearly 50,000 glass plate negatives of images for "real photo" postcards produced by the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast. This exhibit features postcards from Lincoln County.
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"Though short-lived, that British colony marked the beginning of more permanent settlement along the western side of the river in what became known as…"
Site Page
"… it a true urban area: city water (1885), electric lights (1886), the horse-drawn and then electric street railway (1888, 1892)."
Story
Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey
Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics
