Keywords: Salem Towne
Item 78950
Salem Towne Map, Mount Desert Island, ca. 1808
Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: circa 1808 Location: Mount Desert Island Media: Map
Item 72491
Observatory, fire house and church, Portland, ca. 1875
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1875 Location: Portland Media: Stereograph
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
Anglo-Americans in northern New England sometimes interpreted their own anxieties about the Wilderness, their faith, and their conflicts with Native Americans as signs that the Devil and his handmaidens, witches, were active in their midst.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4
"… had a pouch for each town: Strong, Kingfield, Salem, Carrabassett, Stratton, Eustis, Bigelow, Phillips, Madrid, and Rangeley."
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Village Schools
"Abram Regional High School in Salem, and Strong Public School became Strong Elementary School. Another era in education in northern Franklin County…"
Story
Sister Therese Bouthot:Life of service as a Good Shepherd sister
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
From humble beginnings to playing a leadership role in the service of others
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
