Keywords: McLellan Primary School
Item 74195
McLellan School class, Portland, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 112088
Pejepscot Company Records, Volume 5, 1673–1856
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1673–1856
Location: Brunswick; Topsham
Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 546 images.
Exhibit
Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
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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.
