Keywords: Lynde's Island
Item 116638
Plymouth Company Proprietors Shares, 1753-1757
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1788–1753
Media: Ink on Paper
This record contains 39 images.
Item 112090
Pejepscot Company Records, Volume 7, 1694-1853
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1694–1853
Location: Brunswick
Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 1057 images.
Item 87082
Lynde property, West End, Long Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Herbert B. Lynde Use: Summer Dwelling
Exhibit
Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
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.
