Keywords: Ship carpenters
Item 20559
Ship Lydia Skolfield, ca. 1865
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1865 Location: Harpswell; Harpswell; Bath Media: Photographic print
Item 102826
Portland milkman Peter W. Rowe, ca. 1900
Courtesy of Matthew Jude Barker, an individual partner Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
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.
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Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century
"… at one time, employing fifty or seventy-five ship carpenters; with five or six woodcasters continually running to Boston, and even a larger number…"
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Surry by the Bay - Surry Opera Company
"… and the first summer 80 people-- schoolteachers, carpenters, sawyers, clam diggers, children, architects and retirees--came together to perform the…"
