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Portland was a center for protests against the law, and the protests culminated on June 2, 1855, in the Portland Rum Riot. Between 1,000 and 3,000 people opposed to the law gathered because Neal S. Dow , the mayor of Portland and a Maine Temperance Society leader, had authorized a shipment of $1,600 of "medicinal and mechanical alcohol."
The Battle of Falmouth (also known as the Battle of Fort Loyal) (May 16–20, 1690) involved Joseph-François Hertel de la Fresnière and Baron de St Castin leading troops as well as the Wabanaki Confederacy (Mi'kmaq and Maliseet from Fort Meductic) in New Brunswick to capture and destroy Fort Loyal and the English settlement on the Falmouth neck (site of present-day Portland, Maine), then ...
The Oxford History of the American People. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 664. ISBN 978-0-1950003-0-6. Maine Bureau of Corporations, Elections, and Commissions; Harper's Weekly, 11 July 1863; Confederate Navy Research Center, Mobile, Alabama; The New York Times, 28 June 1863. Smith, Mason Philip (1985).
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 National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map. [1]
1944 - A-26 Invader crash near Portland airport was Maine's worst aircraft accident. [54] 1946 - Baxter Woods municipal forest established. [55] 1947 - Maine Turnpike connected Portland to what would become the Interstate Highway System. [56] 1950 - Population: 77,634. [8] 1953 - WCSH begins broadcasting. 1954 - WMTW begins broadcasting.
No land battles were fought in Maine. The only episode was the Battle of Portland Harbor (1863) that saw a Confederate raiding party thwarted in its attempt to capture a revenue cutter. Abraham Lincoln chose Maine's Hannibal Hamlin as his first Vice President.
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Fort Loyal was a British settler refuge and colonial outpost built in 1678 at Falmouth (present-day Portland, Maine) in Casco Bay. It was destroyed in 1690 by Abenaki and French forces at the Battle of Fort Loyal. The fort was rebuilt in 1742 and renamed Falmouth Fort before King George's War and rearmed again in 1755 for the French and Indian War.