Keywords: Mounted deed head
Item 105833
Interior of the Officers Club at the Houlton Air base, 1943
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1943-02-03 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
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.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement
"… of a 50 foot square Savage family plot under a deed of trust recorded in Book 406, Page 127 of Hancock County Registry of Deeds.) Captain John…"
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Northeast Harbor: Rustic to Rusticators
"… the Natives for amounts of rum, and birch bark deeds were given the buyers. Mt. Desert Island was a wilderness when these early settlers arrived…"
