Keywords: Colonel Frank Hume
Item 10243
Colonel Frank Hume in Cuba, 1898
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1898 Media: Photographic print
Item 12974
Flintlock rifle with bayonet, ca. 1770
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1770 Location: Houlton; Saratoga; London Media: Steel, wood
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.
