Maine Memory Network

Minsky Warden Armband, ca. 1943

Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: circa 1943 Location: Bangor Media: Cotton

Prison Corner, Thomaston, ca. 1871

Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1871 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print

121 State Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: St. Luke, Parish, Rectors, Wardens & Vestrymen Use: Parsonage

151-153 State Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: St. Luke, Parish, Rectors, Wardens & Vestrymen Use: Deanery

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.

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Carr O'Brien Block

"… Edward O’Brien and Benjamin Carr, former prison warden, built the Carr O’Brien Block at the Upper Corner (corner of Wadsworth and Main Streets) on…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Additions and New Wing - 1824 to 1843

"Warden Miller lived in a house on the site of the current Masonic Temple on Main Street. Warden Rose resigned within four years of his appointment…"

Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall

Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars