Keywords: Governor Dunlap House
Item 51039
Robert P. Dunlap, Brunswick, ca. 1850
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1850 Location: Brunswick Media: Daguerreotype
Item 21976
Robert P. Dunlap, Brunswick, 1831
Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: circa 1831 Location: Augusta Media: Photographic print
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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.
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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.