Keywords: Cumberland (Ship)
Item 102859
Construction of the S.S. "Cumberland," South Portland, 1918
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1918 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 102860
The Launching of the S.S. "Cumberland," South Portland, 1918
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1918-06-29 Location: South Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 86130
Storage, Browns Wharf, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland Ship Ceiling Use: Storage
Item 86872
Storage for Ship Supplies and Coal, Portland Pier, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Proprietors of Portland Pier Use: Storage for Ship Supplies and Coal
Item 111574
Arthur S. Bosworth cottage, Cape Elizabeth, 1928
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1911–1951 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: Arthur Sewall Bosworth Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
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
Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth
"Sweetser, Phyllis Sturdivant. Cumberland, Maine in four centuries. Cumberland, Maine: Town of Cumberland, 1976. Text by Thomas C. Bennett"
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"Tuttle Road was extended by 1794 to Cumberland's meetinghouse in present day Cumberland Center, where Elijah Tuttle and others lived in this corner…"
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
Lesson Plan
Primary Sources: The Maine Shipyard
Grade Level: 9-12
Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will give students a close-up look at historical operations behind Maine's famed shipbuilding and shipping industries. Students will examine primary sources including letters, bills of lading, images, and objects, and draw informed hypotheses about the evolution of the seafaring industry and its impact on Maine’s communities over time.
Lesson Plan
Becoming Maine: The District of Maine's Coastal Economy
Grade Level: 3-5
Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will introduce students to the maritime economy of Maine prior to statehood and to the Coasting Law that impacted the separation debate. Students will examine primary documents, take part in an activity that will put the Coasting Law in the context of late 18th century – early 19th century New England, and learn about how the Embargo Act of 1807 affected Maine in the decades leading to statehood.
