Keywords: Customs Office
Item 13127
Old Post Office, Houlton, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Houlton Media: Glass Negative
Item 98723
Post Office and Customs House, Belfast, ca. 1875
Contributed by: Belfast Free Library Date: circa 1875 Location: Belfast Media: Stereograph
Item 37279
79-85 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: W.L. Blake & Co. Use: Store - Office - Warehouse
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
Since the establishment of the area's first licensed hotel in 1681, Portland has had a dramatic, grand and boisterous hotel tradition. The Portland hotel industry has in many ways reflected the growth and development of the city itself. As Portland grew with greater numbers of people moving through the city or calling it home, the hotel business expanded to fit the increasing demand.
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House
"… Customs House stopped being the home of the Post Office and the Customs Collector, many businesses have occupied the building."
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block
"One of those customs collectors was William King, also the first governor of Maine. A customs collector has an office at a frontier where the customs…"
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
