Keywords: Thomas Child
Item 100358
William "Napoleon" Thomas, Rumford Center, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: Rumford Media: Photographic print
Item 36414
Sally (Sayward) Barrell, York, 1868
Contributed by: Old York Historical Society Date: 1868 Location: York Media: Oil on canvas
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
We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.
Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.
Site Page
"Until child labor laws were instituted in the 1930s children, using sharp knives, removed the heads, tails and entrails from the fish."
Site Page
"Thomas Dexter was the first keeper 1810 • Committee chosen by people of Seward’s Neck to petition the legislature in Boston to be set off from Moose…"
Story
A Note from a Maine-American
by William Dow Turner
With 7 generations before statehood, and 5 generations since, Maine DNA carries on.
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
