Keywords: Casco Bay tannery
Item 148217
Deering Oaks pond with neighboring slaughterhouse and tannery, Portland, 1887
Contributed by: City of Portland - Planning & Development Date: 1887-07-02 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 105311
Bird's eye view of the city of Portland Maine, 1876
Contributed by: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Date: 1876 Location: Portland Media: Lithograph
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.
