Keywords: Casco Bay Steamboat Company
Item 105271
Birds eye view of Casco Bay, Portland, Maine and surroundings, 1906
Contributed by: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Date: 1906 Location: Portland Media: Lithograph
Item 71684
Casco Bay Fleet at wharf, Portland, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Portland Media: Linen texture postcard
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
Paper has shaped Maine's economy, molded individual and community identities, and impacted the environment throughout Maine. When Hugh Chisholm opened the Otis Falls Pulp Company in Jay in 1888, the mill was one of the most modern paper-making facilities in the country, and was connected to national and global markets. For the next century, Maine was an international leader in the manufacture of pulp and paper.