South Portland, Maine "South Portland"
South Portland, Maine Official seal of South Portland, Maine Seal Official logo of South Portland, Maine Type City Council and City Manager South Portland is a town/city in Cumberland County, Maine, United States, and is the fourth-largest town/city in the state, incorporated in 1898.
Known for its working waterfront, South Portland is situated on Portland Harbor and overlooks the horizon of Portland and the islands of Casco Bay.
Due to South Portland's close adjacency to air, marine, rail, and highway transit options, the town/city has turn into a center for retail and trade in the region.
Even with the name, South Portland was never part of the town/city of Portland, but rather part of Cape Elizabeth.
However, both Cape Elizabeth and Portland were once part of Falmouth.
Cape Elizabeth, and by default, South Portland, broke away from Falmouth in 1765.
South Portland is a principal town/city of the Portland South Portland Biddeford urbane area.
South Portland was first settled in 1630, and it interval to turn into a small residentiary improve with many farms.
In 1858, the City of Portland purchased territory near the Fore River for the Forest City Cemetery.
Three years later South Portland became a city, destined to receive its drinking water, like Portland, from Sebago Lake, while Cape Elizabeth used wells or other small-town sources.
On South Portland's waterfront is Fort Preble, which is a military fort established in 1808 to protect Portland Harbor.
When the United States became involved with World War II, the shipyard period to include the South Portland Shipbuilding Corp.
The park is also home to Portland Breakwater Lighthouse, generally referred to as "Bug Light." For reasons that were never fully determined, Russell lost control of the plane and crashed into a trailer park in South Portland's Brick Hill neighborhood.
19 citizens were killed and 20 citizens were injured mostly the families of South Portland shipyard workers making it the worst aviation accident in Maine history. A Long Creek Air Tragedy Memorial was eventually erected to memorialize the crash and honor the victims, but not until 66 years later. Over the last several decades, South Portland has turn into the retail capital of Maine.
The region in Mill Creek known as the Waterfront Market sits at the base of the Casco Bay Bridge and attracts shoppers from Scarborough, Cape Elizabeth and Portland.
The need for a large mall in Maine emerged in the 1960s, as Portland's downtown precinct could not accommodate the burgeoning retail market.
A former pig farm in South Portland was chosen as the site for the universal because it was close to I-95 and convenient from Portland.
Beginning assembly of the Maine Mall in the late 1960s marked the start of a primary transition in the part of South Portland: from a rural, agrarian landscape to the large retail center that exists today.
The earliest neighborhood in South Portland, and its former "retail corridor", is Ferry Village.
The Ferry Village Neighborhood Conservation Association (FVNCA) was formed in August 1985 to address the evolution boom in the 1980s which was quickly altering the character of the waterfront and many Greater Portland neighborhoods.
FVNCA was instrumental in the formation of the South Portland Land Trust as well as the City-managed Land Bank which provides seed cash for the acquisition of available open space.
South Portland utilizes a council-manager form of government. In December 2007, then-mayor James Soule made headlines in Maine and athwart the nation when he proposed in his inaugural address that South Portland, along with parts of southern Maine, secede from the state of Maine and form a new state. Soule referred to the state government of Maine as an "oppressive enemy" and said that South Portland, along with other southern Maine metros/cities and towns, contributes much more to the state in tax revenue than it receives in education funding.
"The state of Maine needs South Portland more than South Portland needs the state of Maine," Soule claimed. South Portland is bordered by Portland to the north, Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough to the south, and Westbrook to the west.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 14.02 square miles (36.31 km2), of which 11.99 square miles (31.05 km2) is territory and 2.03 square miles (5.26 km2) is water. The city-owned South Portland Bus Service provides enhance transit throughout the city.
A Downeaster passenger train and a Pan Am Railways freight train at Rigby Yard in South Portland, 2005.
Jet - Blue airliner at PWM, viewed from the South Portland side of the runway, 2009.
South Portland Heights South Portland's enhance school fitness has five neighborhood elementary schools: Brown School, Dyer School, Kaler School, Skillin School and Dora L.
The town/city has one high school, South Portland High School, which has an enrollment of about 900 students.
South Portland has two private schools: Holy Cross School, which is a Roman Catholic K-8 school, and Greater Portland Christian School, which is a non-denominational Christian K-12 school.
South Portland also boasts three establishments of higher learning: Kaplan University, New England Bible College, and Southern Maine Community College.
First Baptist Church of South Portland Greater Portland Church of Christ South Portland Church of the Nazarene First Congregational Church of South Portland The South Portland Sentry offers a no-charge newspaper that covers the city's affairs and news.
Regional newspapers such as The Current and The Forecaster cover South Portland issues and affairs, while also serving the communities of Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough.
The South Portland Sentry Media coverage for South Portland is also provided by Portland's tv stations, airways broadcasts, and periodicals.
A Fed - Ex Express cargo jet at PWM, viewed from the South Portland side of the runway, 2009.
Home to the Portland-Montreal Pipe Line, millions of barrels of petroleum are shipped to South Portland each year, which is a primary portion of the inbound tonnage entering the Port of Portland. The chief runway of Maine's busiest airport, the Portland International Jetport, is positioned inside the town/city of South Portland. The passenger terminal is positioned inside the town/city of Portland.
South Portland offers an array of parks and open space.
One of the chief features of South Portland is the historic Greenbelt walkway, which is a three-mile (5 km) paved trail that crosses through a several neighborhoods and provides views of the harbor.
Mill Creek Park is positioned in South Portland's downtown region and is complete with a beautifully landscaped pond area, bridge and rose garden.
A South Portland marina overlooking the town/city of Portland.
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