Keywords: Dunlap Block
Item 21311
Dunlap Block, Brunswick, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1880 Location: Brunswick Media: Stereopticon slide
Item 28482
Masonic Trunk, Dunlap Commandery, Bath, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: circa 1890 Location: Bath; Bath Media: Leather
Item 85270
Dunlap property, S. Side Rockledge Avenue, Little Diamond Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Stuart A. Dunlap Use: Summer Dwelling
Item 50798
80-86 Exchange Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: C.F. Dunlap Agency Use: Stores & Offices
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
Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
