Keywords: Moses bed
Item 17132
Moses bed, Littleton, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Littleton Media: Grass
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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.
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Westbrook Seminary: Educating Women
Westbrook Seminary, built on Stevens Plain in 1831, was founded to educate young men and young women. Seminaries traditionally were a form of advanced secondary education. Westbrook Seminary served an important function in admitting women students, for whom education was less available in the early and mid nineteenth century.
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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century
"… farms and mowing fields, great piles of mussel-bed, with large barns and hay crops And...there were often three or four vessels on the stocks…"
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Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years
"Moses Guilford LowGuilford Historical Society 1816 was a pivotal year for the settlement as they petitioned the general court of the Commonwealth…"
