Keywords: Centennial celebrations, etc.
Item 15838
Centennial Parade float, Eliot, 1910
Contributed by: William Fogg Library Date: 1910-08-11 Location: Eliot Media: Postcard
Item 36277
Centennial Trophy, Lubec, 1911, 1911
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1911-07-03 Location: Lubec Media: Metal, silver plated
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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.
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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century
"… in two verses of a poem he wrote for the 1903 Centennial: Old Surry was blessed by nature/With her harbor, hills and steams/The streams that…"
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Surry by the Bay - Surry Today
"As F.L. Hayward noted in his Centennial address, “Note the thoroughness of today's celebration and rally and who asks for more to prophesy her future…"
