Portland got its name when Asa Lovejoy and Francis Pettygrove flipped a coin in 1845. Lovejoy was from Massachusetts and wanted to name the new settlement Boston. Pettygrove was from Maine and wanted to name it Portland. Pettygrove won the coin toss two out of three times and the rest a...
1843 The city [of Portland] was foundedby Wm. Overton was named by F.W. Pettygrove after his native town of Portland, Maine [1845]. 1847Dr. Ralph Wilcox [the first teacher and first practicting doctor in Portland] conducted thefirst school in a houseat the foot of Taylor Street 1850“...
Portland began to grow fairly rapidly after the Civil War, building docks for shipping lumber, fish, wheat and produce toSan Franciscoand the rest of the world. Farmers were demanding better roads to haul their goods to Portland for shipment. ...
In addition to the manufacture of native lumber, pine lumber is brought from the West, and dressed in various styles and shapes, according to the directions of the carpenter, for houses and other buildings. Nearly all the spruce handled by this concern comes from Bangor, Maine. A full ...
Portland began to grow fairly rapidly after the Civil War, building docks for shipping lumber, fish, wheat and produce toSan Franciscoand the rest of the world. Farmers were demanding better roads to haul their goods to Portland for shipment. ...
Portland, city, seat (1760) of Cumberland county, southwestern Maine, U.S. The state’s largest city, it is the hub of a metropolitan statistical area that includes the cities of South Portland and Westbrook and the towns of Falmouth, Cape Elizabeth, Cum