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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.
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 was home to members of the Algonquian-speaking Aucocisco branch of the Eastern Abenaki ...
Burning of Falmouth. The Burning of Falmouth (October 18, 1775) was an attack by a fleet of Royal Navy vessels on the town of Falmouth, Massachusetts (site of the modern city of Portland, Maine, and not to be confused with the modern towns of Falmouth, Massachusetts or Falmouth, Maine ). The fleet was commanded by Captain Henry Mowat. [ 1]
Nov. 13—A large fire on Long Island in Casco Bay on Monday afternoon produced a plume of black smoke that could be seen from the mainland. An investigator for the Office of the State Fire ...
Nov. 26—Two people were found dead in tents over the weekend that were on fire or destroyed by fire — one in Portland and a second in Sanford, police said. Authorities stopped short of saying ...
Coordinates: 43°40′02″N 70°14′56″W. From the Portland Observatory looking northeast on Congress Street. Munjoy Hill is a neighborhood and prominent geographical feature of Portland, Maine. It is located east of downtown and south of East Deering, the neighborhood via Tukey's Bridge. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the ...
A fire destroyed several waterfront buildings in Maine, including an art gallery with several paintings by Jamie Wyeth and an illustration by his grandfather, N.C. Wyeth., the building's owner ...
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 seat of Cumberland County.Portland's population was 68,408 in April 2020. [4]