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Portland é a cidade mais populosa e mais densamente povoada do estado americano do Maine, no Condado de Cumberland, do qual é sede. Atrai muitos turistas, devido ao antigo porto histórico, à arquitetura das construções e do centro agitado.
Website. www .portlandmaine .gov. Portland ( / ˈpɔːrtlənd / 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] The Greater Portland metropolitan area has a population of approximately 550,000 people.
Contents. hide. Beginning. References. Portland, Maine. Coordinates: 43°39′36″N 70°15′18″W. Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine. The city's population was 68,408 as of the 2020 Census . References. ↑ Coolidge, A. J. and J. B. Mansfeld (1859). A History and Description of New England, General and Local.
Maine's capital is Augusta, and its most populous city is Portland, with a total population of 68,408, as of the 2020 census. The territory of Maine has been inhabited by Indigenous populations [12] for thousands of years after the glaciers retreated during the last ice age.
- Native Americans
- European Settlement
- Trade and Shipping Center
- Regional Cosmopolitan Capital
- The Great Fire and Rebuilding
- Second World War
- Decline and Revival
- Street Namesakes
- Old Postcards of Portland
- West End Architecture
There is evidence of Native American presence in Maine as early as 11,000 BCE. At the time of European contact in the sixteenth century, Algonquian speaking people inhabited present-day Portland. French explorer Samuel de Champlain identified these people as the "Almouchiquois," a polity stretching from the Androscoggin River to Cape Ann and cultur...
The first European to attempt settlement was Christopher Levett, an English naval captain who was granted 6,000 acres (24 km2) from the King of England in 1623 to found a permanent settlement in Casco Bay. Levett proposed naming it York after York, England, the town of his birth. A member of the Plymouth Council for New England and an agent for Sir...
Following the war, a section of Falmouth called The Neck developed as a commercial port and began to grow rapidly as a shipping center. In 1786, the citizens of Falmouth formed a separate town in Falmouth Neck and named it Portland. Portland's economy was greatly stressed by the Embargo Act of 1807 (prohibition of trade with the British), which end...
Portland's period of greatest cosmopolitan prominence was in the first four decades of the nineteenth century, when the city was "a rival, and not a satellite of either Boston or New York." In that period, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow got his start as a young poet and John Neal held a central position in leading American literature toward its great r...
The Great Fire of July 4, 1866, ignited during the Independence Day celebration, destroyed most of the commercial buildings in the city, half the churches and hundreds of homes. More than 10,000 people were left homeless. After this fire, Portland was rebuilt with brick and took on a Victorianappearance. Prosperous citizens began building mansions ...
Casco Bay became destroyer base Sail when the United States Navy began escorting HX, SC, and ON convoys of the Battle of the Atlantic. Destroyer tender USS Denebola (AD-12) provided repair services at Portland from 12 September 1941 until 5 July 1944. Convoy escorts as large as battleships used the large protected anchorage adjacent to good railway...
The erection of the Maine Mall, an indoor shopping center established in the suburb of South Portland during the 1970s, had a significant effect on Portland's downtown. Department stores and other major franchises, many from Congress Street or Free Street, either moved to the nearby mall or went out of business. This was a mixed blessing for locals...
In 1995, a two-year study was completed, during which it was discovered that fifty of the city's 850 streets were named for particular subjects. Allen Avenue is named for landowner Solomon Allen. Bramhall Street is named for George Bramhall, who owned a large tannery near the Western Promenade. Clark Street, meanwhile, is named for early settler Th...
Northeast from City Hall c. 1910Monument Square c. 1908State Street c. 1906Western Promenade c. 1908A house on Chadwick StreetA view down Carroll StreetA Vaughan Street residenceThe West Mansion on the Western Promenade5 de abr. de 2024 · The skyline of Portland, Maine. 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, Cumberland, Freeport, Gorham, Scarborough, Windham ...
The city of Portland, Maine, is the hub city of a metropolitan area in southern Maine. The region is commonly known as Greater Portland or the Portland metropolitan area. For statistical purposes, the U.S. federal government defines three different representations of the Portland metropolitan area. The Portland–South Portland ...
