Keywords: Fox Island
Item 54914
Fox pelts in rigging of 'Bowdoin,' Baffin Island, 1922
Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1922 Location: Bowdoin Harbor Media: Photographic print
Item 17040
Dix Island Granite Company, Dix Island, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Maine Granite Industry Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Location: Dix Island Media: Photographic print
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
The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island
"… most interesting of the films created here was Fox Studio's 1917 feature Queen of the Sea, an oceanic adventure starring Annette Kellermann."
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"It included the whole of Knox County (except for Fox Island) and most of present-day Waldo County, in which Islesboro is now located."
