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Historical Items

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Item 76587

Androscoggin No. 2, Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1954

Contributed by: Town of Topsham Date: 1954-09-04 Location: Topsham; Marblehead Media: Photographic print

Item 31103

Fire at Marblehead Boatyard, Biddeford, 1965

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1965-05-04 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 105270

Manuscript map of Windham, 1872

Contributed by: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Date: circa 1740 Location: Windham Media: Ink on Paper

Online Exhibits

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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.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"John and Sarah married in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The couple made more than one attempt to migrate to Mount Desert Island from Marblehead to…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.