Keywords: House of Naval Affairs Committee
Item 25962
Margaret Chase Smith on Tutwilla Island, 1944
Contributed by: Margaret Chase Smith Library Date: 1944 Media: Photographic print
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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.
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This Rebellion: Maine and the Civil War
For Mainers like many other people in both the North and the South, the Civil War, which lasted from 1861-1865, had a profound effect on their lives. Letters, artifacts, relics, and other items saved by participants at home and on the battlefield help illuminate the nature of the Civil War experience for Mainers.
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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"… to bear a part in the administration of their affairs being (as they say) within their jurisdiction; on the other hand obliged to pay obedience to…"
