Keywords: U.S. Light-House Board
Item 25688
Lantern For 4th, 5th & 6th Order Lighthouses, 1879
Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands Date: 1879-04-01 Media: Ink on paper
Item 148231
Portland Head Light, Cape Elizabeth, 1887
Contributed by: City of Portland - Planning & Development Date: 1887-06-18 Location: Cape Elizabeth 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.
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII
"… for the first time as a separate community in the U.S. Census. In 1896, the island officially became a town."
