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Maine's Road to Statehood - The Coasting Law of 1789

"… at each non-adjacent state as a way to raise port revenue. Maine Historical Society The "Act for Registering and Clearing Vessels, Regulating the…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection

"… to feel pressure from their lower advertising revenues. On the advice of his friend President Warren G."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"By 1959, rail freight revenues were sufficient enough to offset losses in passenger numbers and passenger service was terminated."

Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"As the Revenue Cutter Service, the maritime law enforcement arm of the Treasury Department, morphed into the U."

Windham Historical Society

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Lubec, Maine - Timeline

"… 1792 • Hopley Yeaton given command of the new Revenue Service frigate, Scammel. Purchases land in North Lubec 1795 • Cushing survey of North Lubec…"

Lubec, Maine - S.S. Cumberland: Steamer Brought Passengers and Prosperity to Lubec but Met Tragic End

"Lubec proved to be a good source of revenue for the steamship line which ran three round trips a week."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"Freight revenue was approximately $60,000 per year, double that made from the passenger service. Outbound freight typically consisted of potatoes…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"also served in the Union Navy as a Capt on the revenue cutter USS Delaware patrolling the Potomac River."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor: Lumber Capital of the World

"… the world came to Bangor for the huge amount of revenue waiting just up river. Lumber Mill on the Penobscot, Bangor, ca."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"In 1790 President Washington organized the Revenue Cutter Service (later to become the United States Coast Guard), commissioning Hopley Yeaton as its…"