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The History of Portland, Maine, begins when Native Americans originally called the Portland peninsula Məkíhkanək meaning "At the fish hook" in Penobscot [1] [2] and Machigonne (meaning "Great Neck") [3] in Algonquian. The peninsula and surrounding areas were home to members of the Algonquian-speaking Aucocisco branch of the Eastern Abenaki ...
Historic images related to Portland (via Maine Memory Network) "Timeline: Selected Events in Maine History". Maine Memory Network. Maine Historical Society. John French. "Portland Maine History 1786 to Present" – via Facebook. Works related to Portland, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America
Portland (/ ˈ p ɔːr t l ə n d / PORT-lənd) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine and the county seat of Cumberland County.Portland's population was 68,408 in April 2020. [4]
Location of Portland in Maine. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Portland, Maine. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
But Maine's largest city also enjoyed 125 years of continuous passenger rail service from 1842 until 1967, and has been served by Amtrak since 2001. For most of Portland's history, passenger train schedules were designed with intercity travel—to Boston, Montreal, Nova Scotia, and points west—rather than daily commuting.
Ruins of the Great Fire at Portland, Me., 1866, by J. E. Baker. The great fire of Portland, Maine, sometimes known as the 1866 great fire of Portland, occurred on July 4, 1866—the second Independence Day after the end of the American Civil War. Five years before the Great Chicago Fire, this was the greatest fire yet seen in an American city.
Fore Street was the original waterfront of Portland's Old Port, [2] prior to the reclamation of land which resulted in today's Commercial Street in the early 20th century. [3] [4] The street was laid out in 1724 to the foot of Exchange Street on the west side of Clay Cove, [5] the location of the Nathaniel Dyer Shipyard. [6]
The Market House of Portland, Maine, was located in what was then known as Market Square or Haymarket Square (today's Monument Square) between 1825 and 1888, when it was demolished. In 1833, the building was modified to become Portland's first city hall. The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, which now stands in its place, was dedicated in 1891.