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Historical Items

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Item 16423

Postcard Wood Island Lighthouse, Biddeford c 1902

Contributed by: Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse Date: 1902 Location: Biddeford Media: Postcard

Item 16489

Wood Island Lighthouse, Biddeford, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Jeremy D'Entremont, American Lighthouse Foundation through Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse Date: 1920 Location: Biddeford Media: Postcard

Item 16419

Wood Island Lighthouse, Biddeford, 1944

Contributed by: Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse Date: 1944-03-01 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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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.

Exhibit

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

Exhibit

Lincoln County through the Eastern Eye

The Penobscot Marine Museum’s photography collections include nearly 50,000 glass plate negatives of images for "real photo" postcards produced by the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast. This exhibit features postcards from Lincoln County.

Site Pages

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… villages.” (Ghere, 513) Wood Island and lighthouse, Biddeford Pool, ca. 1915McArthur Public Library Their doom was just over the horizon…"

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"… Village and Grindle Point where Islesboro’s only lighthouse was built in 1850. A schoolhouse, the Creek School, located near the creek overlooking…"