Keywords: Western Cemetery (Portland, Me.)
Item 5179
Eastern Cemetery, Portland, 1889
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1889 Location: Portland Media: Blueprint
Item 135809
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1825
Location: Portland
Media: Silk,
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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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Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru
"… first school, gave an acre of land for the first cemetery, and they were the first ferry owners. Early Government In 1805, riders brought official…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - A Man's Life in a Suitcase
"He was buried in Grave 95, Section 3 in a cemetery on Peleliu Island. A letter received from Lieutenant Colonel K. H. Boyer of the U."
