Keywords: Customs
Item 27869
U.S. Treasury Department letter to the Bath Collector of Customs, 1884
Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: 1790–1884 Location: Bath Media: Ink on paper
Item 36237
Customs office, Lubec, 1963, 1963
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1963 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Item 86336
5-27 Custom House Wharf, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Proprietors of Custom House Wharf Use: Machine Shop
Item 86343
Fish House, Custom House Wharf, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Proprietors of Custom House Wharf Use: Fish House
Item 151263
Ackerman residence, Mount Desert, 1993
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1993 Location: Mount Desert Client: Roger Ackerman, Architect: M. B. Ducher; Landscape Design Associates
Item 151478
Burkey/Zembsch residence, South Portland, 2017-2019
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2017–2019 Location: South Portland Clients: David Burkey; Linda Zembsch Architect: Carol A. Wilson; Carol A. Wilson Architect
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
Northern Threads: Mourning Fashions
A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring 18th and 19th century mourning jewelry and fashions.
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House
"That was also the last year that the Customs Collector was in the Customs House. Govenor William KingPatten Free Library Many people…"
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Mourning Clothing
"… Show With the growth of the middle class, the custom of wearing black during periods of mourning became prevalent."
Story
The man who dedicated 52 years to Biddeford's iconic Alex Pizza
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
A work ethic learned from his parents and passion for the employees and customers of Alex Pizza.
Story
Summers on Peaks
by Anna Greenfield
Memories of being a summer visitor and visiting Peaks Island
Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12, Postsecondary
Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson presents an overview of the history of Jews in Maine and the U.S., including some of the factors that led to Jewish immigration to the U.S., examination of the prejudice, discrimination and anti-Semitism many Jews have experienced, and the contributions of Jews to community life and culture in Maine.
Lesson Plan
What Remains: Learning about Maine Populations through Burial Customs
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
This lesson plan will give students an overview of how burial sites and gravestone material culture can assist historians and archaeologists in discovering information about people and migration over time. Students will learn how new scholarship can help to dispel harmful archaeological myths, look into the roles of religion and ethnicity in early Maine and New England immigrant and colonial settlements, and discover how to track changes in population and social values from the 1600s to early 1900s based on gravestone iconography and epitaphs.
