Keywords: Orrs Island (Me.)Orrs Island (Me.)
Item 6513
Orr's Island in winter, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Harpswell Media: Photographic print
Item 6516
Orr's Island, Harpswell, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Harpswell Media: Photographic print
Item 83605
Orr property, N. Side Sunset Road, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Friederich G. Orr Use: Dwelling
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Music in Maine - Bluegrass Music
"… in 1959 where Cox joined Charlie Gilliam of Orrs Island, and formed the Blue Mountain Boys. Performing around Maine for 20 years, the Blue Mountain…"
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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.
