Keywords: Chandler, Charles P.
Item 9218
Letter to Charles P. Chandler from C.H.B. Woodbury, Jan. 21, 1857
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1857-01-21 Media: Ink on paper
Item 9214
Asa Getchell letter to Charles P. Chandler, 1857
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1857-03-25 Location: Dover-Foxcroft Media: Ink on paper
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
Dressing Up, Standing Out, Fitting In
Adorning oneself to look one's "best" has varied over time, gender, economic class, and by event. Adornments suggest one's sense of identity and one's intent to stand out or fit in.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools
"… place, in the area now known as the south end of Chandler Road. Dist.# 3 - McCleary School was on the east side of the Sandy River in the South…"
Site Page
"… the timber, and to blacksmiths, carpenters, ship-chandlers and other suppliers of materials needed to construct the yards and vessels."
