Maine Memory Network

Mary Weston Post, Fryeburg, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Fryeburg Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Fryeburg Media: Photographic print

Alonzo Coburn, Skowhegan, 1875

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1875 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

For the Union: Civil War Deaths

More than 9,000 Maine soldiers and sailors died during the Civil War while serving with Union forces. This exhibit tells the stories of a few of those men.

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.

Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area

"The first families, the Westons and the Heywoods, were farmers who traveled up the river in 1771 from Massachusetts."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Continental Paper Bag Company

"… Rumford Historical Society, chaired by Virginia Weston, many of the former mill employees were present."