Timeline of Portland, Maine
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Portland, Maine, USA.
-
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
Prior to 19th century
- 1633 - Casco settled.
- 1658 - Settlement renamed "Falmouth."
- 1668 - Eastern Cemetery established.
- 1676 - Village sacked by the Wampanoag during King Philip's War.
- 1690 - Battle of Fort Loyal.
- 1718 - Town of Falmouth established.[1]
- 1740 - First Parish Church built.[1]
- 1763 - Falmouth Library Society organized.
- 1775
- Thompson's War[2]
- Town burned by British.[1]
- 1785 - Falmouth Gazette newspaper begins publication.[3]
- 1786 - Falmouth renamed "Portland."[4]
- 1790
- 1796 - Portland Marine Society incorporated.[8]
19th century
File:1876 Birds eye view of the city of Portland Maine BPL.png
"Bird's Eye View of the City of Portland," 1876
- 1803 - Eastern Argus newspaper begins publication.[9]
- 1805 - Portland Benevolent Society incorporated.[8]
- 1806 - Gorham Academy built.
- 1807 - Portland Observatory built.[1]
- 1819 - State constitutional convention held.[10]
- 1820
- Portland becomes capital of State of Maine.[1]
- Maine Council of Royal Masters instituted.[8]
- Population: 8,581.[6]
- 1821
- High School, Maine Mineralogical Society,[8] and Maine Encampment of Knight Templars[8] established.
- 1822 - Maine Historical Society founded.
- 1825 - First Parish Church built.
- 1826 - Portland Athenaeum founded.
- 1828
- Abyssinian Meeting House established.
- Mariner's Church built.
- 1829
- Theatre built on Union Street.[11][12]
- Western Cemetery established.
- 1830 - Population - 12,598.[6]
- 1831 - Westbrook Seminary chartered.[1]
- 1832
- State capital moves from Portland to Augusta.
- City of Portland chartered.[1]
- Cumberland and Oxford Canal opened bringing interior trade to Portland harbor from Long Lake[13]
- 1836 - Western Promenade laid out.[11]
- 1839 - B. Thurston & Co. publishers established.[14]
- 1843
- 1844 - Portland Steam Packet Company organized.[16]
- 1846 - Portland Company established to build railway locomotives.[16]
- 1849 - Portland Gas Light Co. incorporated.[17]
- 1850 - Curtis' chewing gum manufactory in business.[18]
- 1851 - Kennebec and Portland Rail Road begins operating.[19]
- 1853
- Grand Trunk Railway to Montreal begins operating.
- Portland Board of Trade established.[20]
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland established.
- 1855
- Portland Rum Riot.
- Evergreen Cemetery established.
- 1856 - Chestnut Street Methodist Church built.
- 1859 - Forest City Cemetery established.
- 1862 - Portland Daily Press newspaper begins publication.[5]
- 1863
- Battle of Portland Harbor.
- Portland street car service began.[21]
- Galt wharf grain elevator completed for export of Canadian wheat.[22]
- 1866 - Fire.[1]
- 1867
- Portland Institute and Public Library founded.[23]
- First Baptist Church built.
- 1868 - U.S. Customhouse and St. Paul's Church and Rectory built.
- 1869 - Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception built.
- 1870 - Cumberland and Oxford Canal abandoned when Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad reached Sebago Lake.[24]
- 1875 - Southworth Press established.[25]
- 1881 - Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor founded.[26]
- 1882
- Portland Society of Art founded.
- Evening Express newspaper begins publication.
- 1884 - Maine Genealogical Society organized.
- 1886 - Portland centennial.[27]
- 1888 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Monument unveiled at Longfellow Square.
- 1890 - Population: 36,425.[6]
- 1891 - Portland Soldiers and Sailors Monument dedicated on Monument Square.
- 1897
- Jefferson Theatre opens.[11]
- Maine Music Festival begins.[1]
- St. Lawrence Church and Williston-West Church built.
- 1898 - Waynflete School established.
- 1899
20th century
- 1901 - New England Elevator Company built the largest grain elevator on the Atlantic coast.[30]
- 1906 - Portland Company ceased building railway locomotives.[31]
- 1908 - Portland Society of Arts and Crafts organized.[32]
- 1909 - City Hall built.
- 1910 - Memorial statue of Thomas Brackett Reed unveiled.[33]
- 1911
- L. D. M. Sweat Memorial Art Museum dedicated.[34]
- Portland Terminal Company formed.
- 1912
- Kotzschmar Memorial Organ installed in City Hall's Merrill Auditorium.
- Eastern Promenade laid out according to design by Olmsted Brothers.[35]
- 1913
- State of Maine Express began direct Pullman railway service from major US cities to Portland.[36]
- Historical pageant takes place on Eastern Promenade.[37]
- 1914
- Portland–Lewiston Interurban service began between Portland and Lewiston.[21]
- Portland Exposition Building and Green Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church built.
- 1916 - Million Dollar Bridge opens.
- 1918 - Queen's Hospital for women opens.[11]
- 1919 - Portland designated eastern end of the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway.[38]
- 1921 - Etz Chaim Synagogue built.
- 1923
- Portland Symphony Orchestra and Children’s Theatre of Portland established.
- Canadian National Railway began diverting export traffic from Portland to Canadian Maritime ports.[39]
- 1924
- Maine State Pier and Chapman Building constructed.
- Longfellow Garden Club organized.[40]
- 1926 - U.S. Route 1 linked Portland to the United States highway system.[41]
- 1929 - State Theatre opens.
- 1930 - The Gull began international Pullman train service through Portland from the Maritimes.[42]
- 1933
- Portland-Westbrook Municipal Airport established.
- End of interurban service from Portland to surrounding communities.[21]
- 1934 - Flying Yankee began streamliner service to Portland.[43]
- 1940 - East Wind began summer passenger train service to Portland for vacationers from major eastern cities.[44]
- 1941
- Portland–Montreal Pipe Line completed.[45]
- Portland became United States Navy destroyer base Sail during the Battle of the Atlantic.[46]
- Victoria Mansion museum opens.
- Portland street car system dismantled.[21]
- 1942 - Battery Steele built.
- 1944 - A-26 Invader crash near Portland airport was Maine's worst aircraft accident.[47]
- 1946 - Baxter Woods municipal forest established.[48]
- 1947 - Maine Turnpike connected Portland to what would become the Interstate Highway System.[49]
- 1950 - Population: 77,634.[6]
- 1953 - WCSH begins broadcasting.
- 1954 - WMTW begins broadcasting.
- 1960 - Tukey's Bridge built.
- 1961 - Demolition of Union Station ended daily passenger train service to Portland.[50]
- 1964 - Greater Portland Landmarks preservation group formed.[51]
- 1965 - Kennedy Park housing built.
- 1967 - Summer weekend passenger train service to Portland ended.[52]
- 1970 - University of Southern Maine Portland campus established.
- 1973
- Old Port Festival begins.
- WMPG begins broadcasting.
- Salt Institute for Documentary Studies founded.
- 1976 - Children's Museum of Maine founded.
- 1977 - Cumberland County Civic Center built.
- 1978 - Portland Stage Company active.
- 1984
- Sister city relationship established with Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan.[53]
- Portland Ice Arena opens.
- 1985 - Portland Monthly magazine begins publication.
- 1993
- Portland Pirates ice hockey team formed.
- Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum opens.
- 1994
- Portland Chamber Music Festival begins.
- PORTopera founded.
- Hadlock Field opens.
- 1997
- Casco Bay Bridge opens.
- City website online (approximate date).[54][chronology citation needed]
21st century
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- 2001 - Downeaster restored passenger train service to Portland.[55]
- 2003 - Sister city relationship established with Mytilene, Greece.[53]
- 2006 - Maine Roller Derby and Portland Society of Architects[56] founded.
- 2007 - Whole Foods grocery in business.[1]
- 2008 - Maine Mead Works in business.[57]
- 2009
- Port City Music Hall opens.[58]
- Congress Street designated an historic district.[59]
- 2010
- State Theatre reopens.
- Trader Joe's grocery in business.[2]
- Population: 66,194 city;[6] 514,098 metro.
See also
- History of Portland, Maine
- Neighborhoods of Portland, Maine
- List of mayors of Portland, Maine
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Portland, Maine
- Railroad history of Portland, Maine
- List of Portland, Maine schools
- Timeline of Maine[60]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Britannica 1910.
- ↑ Leamon, James S. Revolution Downeast: The War for American Independence in Maine (1995) University of Massachusetts Press pp.62-67
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Charter 1881.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Phelps 1853.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Jewett 1823.
- ↑ Directory 1912.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Federal Writers' Project 1940.
- ↑ Elwell 1876.
- ↑ Ward, Ernest E. My First Sixty Years in Harrison, Maine Cardinal Printing 1967 p.7
- ↑ Gregory 1887.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Beckett 1850.
- ↑ Beckett 1858.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Beckett 1856.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 Robertson 1982.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Dedicatory exercises of the Baxter Building: to the uses of the Portland Public Library and Maine Historical Society, Thursday, February 21, 1889. Auburn, Maine: Lakeside Press, Printers and Binders, 1889
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Sargent 1916.
- ↑ Centennial 1886.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Portland Camera Club
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lowe, J. Norman Canadian National in the East volume 3 (1985) Calgary Group of the British Railway Modellers of North America ISBN 0-919487-14-9
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Jones, Robert Willoughby Boston and Maine (1991) Trans-Anglo Books ISBN 0-87046-101-X p.96
- ↑ ::Portland Montreal Pipe Line:: About us
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 53.0 53.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Bibliography
- Published in the 19th century
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- William Willis. The history of Portland, from 1632 to 1864, 2nd ed. Portland: Bailey & Noyes, 1865
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Published in the 20th century
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
![]() |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Portland, Maine. |
- Historic images related to Portland (via Maine Memory Network)
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Works related to Portland, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).