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Portland, Maine City of Portland, Maine Clockwise: Portland waterfront, the Portland Observatory on Munjoy Hill, the corner of Middle and Exchange Street in the Old Port, Congress Street, the Civil War Memorial in Monument Square, and winter light sculptures in Congress Square Plaza.
Clockwise: Portland waterfront, the Portland Observatory on Munjoy Hill, the corner of Middle and Exchange Street in the Old Port, Congress Street, the Civil War Memorial in Monument Square, and winter light sculptures in Congress Square Plaza.
Flag of Portland, Maine Flag Official seal of Portland, Maine Nickname(s): The Forest City, Portland of the East Portland, Maine is positioned in the US Portland, Maine - Portland, Maine Website City of Portland Portland is the biggest city in the U.S.
State of Maine, with a populace of 66,881 as of 2015. The Greater Portland urbane region is home to over half a million citizens , more than one-third of Maine's total population.
The Old Port precinct is incessanted by tourists, while Portland Head Light is also a destination.
The town/city seal depicts a phoenix rising from ashes, which is a reference to the recoveries from four devastating fires. Portland was titled for the English Isle of Portland, and the town/city of Portland, Oregon was in turn titled after Portland, Maine.
Main articles: History of Portland, Maine; Timeline of Portland, Maine; and Railroad history of Portland, Maine Fort Casco, Portland, Maine assembled by Wolfgang William Romer; map by Cyprian Southack Native Americans originally called the Portland peninsula Machigonne ("Great Neck"). Portland, Maine was titled for the English Isle of Portland, and the town/city of Portland, Oregon was in turn titled for Portland, Maine. The first European settler was Capt.
In 1786, the people of Falmouth formed a separate town in Falmouth Neck and titled it Portland, after the isle off the coast of Dorset, England. Portland's economy was greatly stressed by the Embargo Act of 1807 (prohibition of trade with the British), which ended in 1809, and the War of 1812, which ended in 1815.
In 1820, Maine became a state with Portland as its capital.
On June 2, 1855, the Portland Rum Riot occurred.
In 1853, upon culmination of the Grand Trunk Railway to Montreal, Portland became the major ice-free winter seaport for Canadian exports.
The Portland Company produced more than 600 19th-century steam locomotives.
Portland became a 20th-century rail core as five additional rail lines consolidated into Portland Terminal Company in 1911.
In the 20th century, icebreakers later enabled ships to reach Montreal in winter, drastically reducing Portland's part as a winter port for Canada.
On June 26, 1863, a Confederate raiding party led by Captain Charles Read, entered the harbor at Portland and the Battle of Portland Harbor ensued, one of the northernmost battles of the Civil War.
The 1866 Great Fire of Portland, Maine of July 4, 1866, ignited amid the Independence Day celebration, finished most of the commercial buildings in the city, half the churches and hundreds of homes.
By act of the Maine Legislature In 1899, Portland took in the town/city of Deering despite a vote by Deering inhabitants rejecting the annexation greatly increasing the size of the town/city and opening areas for evolution beyond the peninsula. The assembly of The Maine Mall, an indoor shopping center established in the suburb of South Portland amid the 1970s, economically depressed downtown Portland.
Portland horizon at sunset Aerial view of Portland According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 69.44 square miles (179.85 km2), of which, 21.31 square miles (55.19 km2) is territory and 48.13 square miles (124.66 km2) is water. Portland is on a peninsula in Casco Bay on the Gulf of Maine and the Atlantic Ocean.
Portland borders South Portland, Westbrook and Falmouth.
Portland has a humid continental climate (Koppen: Dfb), with rather cold, snowy winters, and warm, occasionally almost hot, summers.
Direct strikes by hurricanes or tropical storms are rare, partially due to the normally cooler Atlantic waters off the Maine coast (which weaken tropical systems), but primarily because most tropical systems approaching or reaching 40 degrees North latitude recurve (Coriolis effect), carrying most such storms well south and east of the Portland area.
Climate data for Portland International Jetport, Maine (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1871 present) Official records for Portland were kept at downtown from March 1871 to 24 November 1940, and at Portland Int'l Jetport (PWM) since 25 November 1940.
Main article: Neighborhoods of Portland, Maine Portland is organized into neighborhoods generally recognized by residents, but they have no legal or political authority.
Most town/city neighborhoods have a small-town association, which usually maintains ongoing relations of varying degrees with the town/city government on issues affecting the neighborhood.
On March 8, 1899, Portland took in the neighboring town/city of Deering. Deering neighborhoods now comprise the northern and easterly sections of the town/city before the consolidation .
Portland's Deering High School was formerly the enhance high school for Deering.
Portland's neighborhoods include the Arts District, Bayside, Bradley's Corner, Cushing's Island, Deering Center, Deering Highlands, Downtown, East Deering, East Bayside, East End, Eastern Cemetery, Great Diamond Island, Highlands, Kennedy Park, Libbytown, Little Diamond Island, Lunt's Corner, Morrill's Corner, Munjoy Hill, Nason's Corner, North Deering, Oakdale, the Old Port, Parkside, Peaks Island, Riverton Park, Rosemont, Stroudwater, West End, and Woodford's Corner.
Men's Health ranked Portland the ninth most educated town/city in America. Map of Portland's poverty rate and accessibility to enhance transit and grocery stores.
Enumeration Bureau, Portland's immediate urbane region ranked 147th in the country in 2000 with a populace of 243,537, while the Portland/South Portland/Biddeford urbane region included 487,568 total inhabitants.
Municipal ferries on the Portland waterfront Portland has turn into Maine's economic capital because the town/city has Maine's biggest port, biggest population, and is close to Boston (105 miles to the south).
Most nationwide financial services organizations such as Bank of America, and Key Bank base their Maine operations in Portland.
Unum, Magellan Petroleum, Maine Bank & Trust, Immu - Cell Corp, and Pioneer Telephone have command posts here, and Portland's neighboring metros/cities of South Portland, Westbrook and Scarborough, furnish homes for other corporations.
Since 1867, Burnham & Morrill Co., manufacturer of B&M Baked Beans, has had its chief plant in Portland.
Portland has a low unemployment level when compared to nationwide and state averages, 2.9% in October 2015. Portland and encircling communities also have higher median incomes than most other Maine communities.
Portland is home to increased urban farming, especially in the East Bayside neighborhood. The Arts District, centered on Congress Street, is home to the Portland Museum of Art, Portland Stage Company, Maine Historical Society & Museum, Portland Public Library, Maine College of Art, Children's Museum of Maine, SPACE Gallery, Merrill Auditorium, the Kotzschmar Memorial Organ, and Portland Symphony Orchestra, as well as many lesser art arcades and studios.
Hadlock Field, home of the Portland Sea Dogs Portland Head Light Lighthouse Portland Observatory Portland Stage Company The spire of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception has been a notable feature of the Portland horizon since its culmination in 1854.
Mullett of white Vermont marble and featured a Corinthian portico, Portland retains his equally monumental 1872 granite Second Empire Renaissance Revival custom home.
At 175 feet (53 meters), it is Portland's (as well as Maine's) tallest building.
Cobb of Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners at the Portland Museum of Art complex (a component of which is the 1801 Mc - Lellan-Sweat Mansion), and the Back Bay Tower, a 15-story residentiary building instead of in 1990. The sign can be seen from nearly all of downtown Portland.
In downtown Portland.
Photographer Todd Webb lived in Portland amid his later years and took many pictures of the city. Some of Webb's pictures of Portland can be found at the Evans Gallery in South Portland. Main article: List of citizens from Portland, Maine See also: Media of Portland, Maine Portland is home to a concentration of publishing and broadcast companies, advertising agencies, web designers, commercial photography studios and film manufacturers.
The town/city is home to two daily newspapers, The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram established in 1862 and The Portland Daily Sun.
Portland is also veiled by an alternative weekly newspaper, The Portland Phoenix, presented by the Phoenix Media/Communications Group, which also produces a New England-wide news, arts, and entertainment website, thephoenix.com, and a twice-annual GLBT issues magazine, Out In Maine.
Other publications include The Portland Forecaster, a weekly newspaper; The Bollard, a monthly alternative magazine; The West End News, The Munjoy Hill Observer, The Baysider, The Waterfront, Portland Magazine, and The Companion, an LGBT publication.
Portland is also the home office of The Exception Magazine, an online journal that covers Maine.
The Portland broadcast media market is the biggest one in Maine in both radio and television.
A whole host of airways broadcast are positioned in Portland, including WFNK (Classic Hits), WJJB (Sports), WTHT (Country), WBQW (Classical), WHXR (Rock), WHOM (Adult Contemporary), WJBQ (Top 40), WCLZ (Adult Album Alternative), WBLM (Classic Rock), WYNZ ('60s-'70s Hits), and WCYY (Modern rock).
The Maine Public Broadcasting Network's (MPBN) radio news operations are based in Portland.
There is no PBS partner licensed to the town/city of Portland but the market is served by MPBN outlets WCBB Channel 10 in Augusta and WMEA-TV Channel 26 Biddeford.
Kieran Shields' mystery novels The Truth of All Things (2012) and A Study in Revenge (2013), featuring police detective Archie Lean and criminologist Perceval Grey, take place in early 1890s Portland.
All six books in The Moosepath Saga by Van Reid, take place, in part, in late 1890s Portland, and follow the adventures and misadventures of a Portland gentlemen's club known as The Moosepath League.
Reid's historical Portland is precisely described and many readers (particularly summer visitors) have made a game out of visiting the streets, landmarks, and establishments where his various and sundry characters have walked.
Portland Sea Dogs Eastern League, Baseball Hadlock Field 1994 1 Maine Red Claws NBA D-League, Basketball Portland Exposition Building 2009 0 Portland Phoenix FC USL PDL, Soccer Memorial Stadium 2009 0 Maine Roller Derby WFTDA, Roller Derby Portland Exposition Building 2006 0 Portland Rugby Football Club (Maine) New England Rugby Football Union, Rugby Union Fox Street Field 1969 1 Entrance region of Hadlock Field, home of the Portland Sea Dogs The Portland Sea Dogs, the Double-A farm team of the Boston Red Sox, play at Hadlock Field.
The Maine Red Claws, the NBA Development League partner of the Boston Celtics, play at the Portland Exposition Building.
The GPS Portland Phoenix soccer squads plays in the Premier Development League.
Previously, Portland was home of a several minor league ice hockey teams: the Maine Nordiques (NAHL) from 1973 to 1977, the Maine Mariners (AHL) from 1977 to 1992, and the Portland Pirates (AHL) from 1993 to 2016.
The Portland Sports Complex, positioned off of Park and Brighton Avenues near I-295 and Deering Oaks park, homes a several of the city's stadiums and arenas, including: Portland Exposition Building basketball, indoor track, concerts and trade shows (Capacity 3,000) Portland Ice Arena hockey and figure skating (Capacity 400) The Portland region has eleven experienced golf courses, 124 tennis courts, and 95 playgrounds.
Portland hosts the Maine Marathon each October.
A several of the many restaurants in Portland, Maine The downtown region of Portland, including the Arts District and the Old Port have a high concentration of eating and drinking establishments, with many more to be found throughout the rest of the peninsula, outlying neighborhoods, and neighboring communities.
Portland rates among the top U.S.
According to the Trip - Advisor, Portland is presently home to about 389 restaurants. In 2009, Portland was titled the "Foodiest Small Town in America" by Bon Appetit magazine, and was featured in the New York Times as a food destination. In the spring of 2007, Portland was impel as one of three finalists for "Delicious Destination of the Year" at the 2007 Food Network Awards. In 2015, Portland ranked 14th on Travel + Leisure's end of year list, "America's 20 Best Cities for Beer Lovers". Portland is home to a number of microbreweries and brewpubs, including the D.
Portland is the place of birth of the Italian sandwich.
The Portland Farmers' Market, which has been in continuous operation since 1768, takes place every Wednesday morning in Monument Square and every Saturday in Deering Oaks Park from early May to the end of November, and every Saturday indoors at 200 Anderson Street in the East Bayside Neighborhood, from early December to the end of April.
With them came the resurgence of farmers' markets (including the expansion of the Portland market), a momentous organic farming boss and an increased interest in plant-based cuisine. The echoes of this boss continue in Portland, where restaurants accentuate small-town and organic food and where the state's greatest concentration of vegetarian and vegetarian-friendly restaurants can be found.
Portland hosts a number of food and beverage festivals, including: The people of Portland are represented by a nine-member town/city council which makes policy, passes ordinances, approves appropriations, appoints the town/city manager and oversees the municipal government.
The town/city council of nine members is propel by the people of Portland.
On November 2, 2010, Portland voters narrowly allowed a measure that allowed them to elect the mayor.
On December 5, 2011, he was sworn in as the first citizen-elected mayor in 88 years (see Portland, Maine mayoral election, 2011).
The town/city manager oversees the daily operations of the town/city government, appoints the heads of town/city departments, and prepares annual budgets.
The town/city manager directs all town/city agencies and departments, and is responsible for the executing laws and policies passed by the town/city council. The current town/city manager is Jon Jennings.
Aside from the chief city council there is also an propel school board for the Portland Public School system.
On November 5, 2013, Portland voters overwhelmingly allowed an ordinance to legalize the possession and private use of cannabis for grownups, making the town/city the first municipality in the Eastern United States to do so. The Portland Fire Department (PFD) provides fire protection and emergency medical services to the town/city of Portland 24/7, 365.
The Portland Fire Department also operates an Airport Division Station at 1001 Westbrook St., at the Portland International Jetport, and a Marine Division Station, positioned at 54 Commercial St. The Portland Fire Department also operates a fire apparatus fleet of 4 Engine Companies (5 when manpower permits), 4 Ladder Companies (including 2 Quints), 1 Rescue Company, 1 Hazardous Materials (Haz-Mat.) Unit, 1 Confined-Space Rescue Unit, 5 ARFF Crash Rescue Units, 3 Marine Units (Fireboats), 5 MEDCU Units (Ambulances), and various other special, support, and reserve units.
Portland High School.
Portland Public Schools List of Portland, Maine schools Portland Arts & Technology High School (public-vocational) Portland High School (public) Maine Medical Center and a jet - Blue airliner, viewed from the South Portland side of the Portland International Jetport, 2009.
Maine Medical Center a Level One Trauma Center is the biggest hospital in Maine and is closing to grew its ground and services.
In 2010, Maine Medical Center's Hannaford Center for Safety, Innovation and Simulation opened at the Brighton campus. The former Portland General Hospital is now home to the Barron Center nursing facility.
See also: Portland Transportation Center and Ocean Gateway International Marine Passenger Terminal Portland is accessible from I-95 (the Maine Turnpike), I-295, and US 1.
Route 302, a primary travel route and scenic highway between Maine and Vermont, has its easterly end in Portland.
Concord Coach Lines bus service joins Portland to 14 other communities in Maine as well as to Boston's South Station and Logan Airport.
Both the Downeaster and the Concord Coach Lines can be found at the Portland Transportation Center on Thompsons Point Road, in the Libbytown neighborhood. Greyhound Lines on Saint John Street joins to 17 Maine communities and to more than 3,600 U.S.
The town/city bus service is provided by Metro Greater Portland Transit District. The busy waterfront in Portland, Maine.
Commercial air service is available at the Portland International Jetport, positioned in Stroudwater west of the city's downtown district.
The Port of Portland is the second-largest cruise and passenger destination in the state (next to Bar Harbor), and is served by the Ocean Gateway International Marine Passenger Terminal.
From May 15, 2014 until October 2015, the cruise ship ferry Nova Star made daily trips from Portland to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Due to poor passenger numbers and financial problems, Nova Scotia chose Bay Ferries, the before operator of The Cat, to operate the service starting in 2016.
Downtown Portland Portland has four sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International (SCI): List of mayors of Portland, Maine History of Portland from 1632 to 1864 by Wm.
History of Portland, Maine (1886) a b History of Portland, Maine, Maine Resource Guide "Portland: The Town that was Almost Boston".
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Portland Neighborhood Associations "Maine - Race and Hispanic Origin for Selected Cities and Other Places: Earliest Enumeration to 1990".
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"Portland, Maine Population: Enumeration 2010".
"Historical Enumeration Statistics On Population Totals By Race, 1790 to 1990, and By Hispanic Origin, 1970 to 1990, For Large Cities And Other Urban Places In The United States" (PDF).
"Historical Enumeration Statistics On Population Totals By Race, 1790 to 1990, and By Hispanic Origin, 1970 to 1990, For Large Cities And Other Urban Places In The United States" (PDF).
"About Us - Portland Montreal Pipe Line".
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Sustainability Initiatives in East Bayside Neighborhood, Portland, Maine New England Environmental Finance Center, Muskie School, University of Southern Maine, May 15, 2010 Portland warehouse gets new life as urban farm, fermentory Portland Forecaster, September 7, 2010 "Thompson's Point - Development in Portland, Maine".
"Greater Portland Area 2006 Office Market Survey" (PDF).
"Seeing Portland" focuses on the work of photographers from the 1970s and early '80s, including "Splendid Restaurant, Congress Street, Portland, 8/20/76" by Todd Webb.
The show opens Saturday at Zero Station in Portland.
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"Portland, Maine: In the Magazine: Bon Appetit".
"Portland has taste of food fame, but the other Portland is served".
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"Food could put Portland on the map".
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Portland Elected Mayor Measure Passes "Portland police chief, Maine attorney general say Portland pot legalization vote won't change enforcement strategies".
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America's Top Foodie Cities Portland is #4! | There's nowhere quite like downtown Portland Portland, Maine: Best.
"Portland joins list of top college cities".
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Study Finds Portland (Maine!) Third Gayest City".
Japan index of Sister Cities International retrieved on December 9, 2008 Seated by the Sea: The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, and Its Irish Longshoremen (University Press of Florida; 2010) 280 pages; Focuses on the years 1880 to 1923 in a study of how an influx of Irish immigrant workers transformed the city's waterfront.
Gateway to Vacationland: The Making of Portland Maine(University of Massachusetts Press: 2012) 285 pages; Explores the socio-economic, political and cultural history of Portland emphasizing the evolution of the city's assembled surrounding after the fire of 1866.
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