Keywords: Fraternity Club (Portland, Me.)
Item 14248
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1873 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 14251
Munroe A. Blanchard, Portland, 1874
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1874 Location: Portland 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
Memorializing Civil War Veterans: Portland & Westbrook
Three cemeteries -- all of which were in Westbrook during the Civil War -- contain headstones of Civil War soldiers. The inscriptions and embellishments on the stones offer insight into sentiments of the eras when the soldiers died.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 3 of 3
"… The Knights of Pythias was another post-Civil War fraternal organization and secret society founded at Washington, DC, in 1864."
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women
"She took a job on the Portland Transcript in 1855, and the next year published her first book of poetry, Forest Buds from the Woods of Maine, under…"
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
