Keywords: Marblehead
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
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 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…"
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
