Keywords: Piers %26 wharves
Item 30954
Damaged Pier at Old Orchard Beach, 1909
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1909 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Photographic print
Item 28347
Schooner Charles E. Sears, Lubec, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Lubec Memorial Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Lubec 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
Scientist, author and explorer Donald B. MacMillan established Wiscasset as his homeport for many of the voyages he made to the Arctic region starting in the early 1920s.
