Timeline of Portland, Maine
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Portland, Maine, USA.
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]
- 1768 - Portland Fire Department formed, March 29.
- 1785 - Falmouth Gazette newspaper begins publication.[3]
- 1786 - Falmouth renamed "Portland."[4]
- 1790
- 1796 - Portland Marine Society incorporated.[8]
19th century[]
"Bird's Eye View of the City of Portland," 1876
- 1800 - Population: 3,704.[9]
- 1803 - Eastern Argus newspaper begins publication.[10]
- 1805 - Portland Benevolent Society incorporated.[8]
- 1806 - Gorham Academy built.
- 1807 - Portland Observatory built.[1]
- 1819 - State constitutional convention held.[11]
- 1820
- 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.
- 1827 - John Neal opened the first public gymnasium in the US founded by an American in town hall in Market Square[12]
- 1828
- Maine's first literary periodical, The Yankee, founded.[13]
- Abyssinian Meeting House established.
- Mariner's Church built.
- 1829
- Theatre built on Union Street.[14][15]
- 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[16]
- 1836 - Western Promenade laid out.[14]
- 1839 - B. Thurston & Co. publishers established.[17]
- 1843
- 1844 - Portland Steam Packet Company organized.[19]
- 1845 - The Pleasure Boat newspaper begins publication.[20]
- 1846 - Portland Company established to build railway locomotives.[19]
- 1849 - Portland Gas Light Co. incorporated.[21]
- 1850
- 1851 - Kennebec and Portland Rail Road begins operating.[23]
- 1853
- Grand Trunk Railway to Montreal begins operating.
- Portland Board of Trade established.[24]
- 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.[25]
- Galt wharf grain elevator completed for export of Canadian wheat.[26]
- 1866 - Fire.[1]
- 1867
- Portland Institute and Public Library founded.[27]
- 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.[28]
- 1875 - Southworth Press established.[29]
- 1881 - Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor founded.[30]
- 1882
- Portland Society of Art founded.
- Evening Express newspaper begins publication.
- 1884 - Maine Genealogical Society organized.
- 1886 - Portland centennial.[31]
- 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.[14]
- 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.[34]
- 1906 - Portland Company ceased building railway locomotives.[35]
- 1908 - Portland Society of Arts and Crafts organized.[36]
- 1909 - City Hall built.
- 1910 - Memorial statue of Thomas Brackett Reed unveiled.[37]
- 1911
- L. D. M. Sweat Memorial Art Museum dedicated.[38]
- 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.[39]
- 1913
- 1914
- Portland–Lewiston Interurban service began between Portland and Lewiston.[25]
- Portland Exposition Building and Green Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church built.
- 1916 - Million Dollar Bridge opens.
- 1918 - Queen's Hospital for women opens.[14]
- 1919 - Portland designated eastern end of the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway.[42]
- 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.[43]
- 1924
- Maine State Pier and Chapman Building constructed.
- Longfellow Garden Club organized.[44]
- 1926 - U.S. Route 1 linked Portland to the United States highway system.[45]
- 1929 - State Theatre opens.
- 1930 - The Gull began international Pullman train service through Portland from the Maritimes.[46]
- 1933
- Portland-Westbrook Municipal Airport established.
- End of interurban service from Portland to surrounding communities.[25]
- 1934 - Flying Yankee began streamliner service to Portland.[47]
- 1940 - East Wind began summer passenger train service to Portland for vacationers from major eastern cities.[48]
- 1941
- Portland–Montreal Pipe Line completed.[49]
- Portland became United States Navy destroyer base Sail during the Battle of the Atlantic.[50]
- Victoria Mansion museum opens.
- Portland street car system dismantled.[25]
- 1942 - Battery Steele built.
- 1944 - A-26 Invader crash near Portland airport was Maine's worst aircraft accident.[51]
- 1946 - Baxter Woods municipal forest established.[52]
- 1947 - Maine Turnpike connected Portland to what would become the Interstate Highway System.[53]
- 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.[54]
- 1964 - Greater Portland Landmarks preservation group formed.[55]
- 1965 - Kennedy Park housing built.
- 1967 - Summer weekend passenger train service to Portland ended.[56]
- 1970 - University of Southern Maine Portland campus established.
- 1973
- Old Port Festival begins.
- WMPG begins broadcasting.
- Salt Institute for Documentary Studies founded.
- 1974 - The Hollow Reed restaurant in the Old Port is founded.[57]
- 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.[58]
- 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).[59][chronology citation needed]
21st century[]
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- 2001 - Downeaster restores passenger train service to Portland.[60]
- 2003 - Sister city relationship established with Mytilene, Greece.[58]
- 2006 - Maine Roller Derby and Portland Society of Architects[61] founded.
- 2007 - Green Elephant Vegetarian Bistro is founded in the Arts District.[62]
- 2007 - Whole Foods grocery in business.[1]
- 2008 - Maine Mead Works in business.[63]
- 2009
- Port City Music Hall opens.[64]
- Congress Street designated an historic district.[65]
- 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 in 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
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Bibliography[]
- Published in the 19th century
- Nathaniel G. Jewett (1823). Portland Directory & Register. Todd and Smith, printer.
- S.B. Beckett (1850). Portland Directory. Thurston & Co., printer.
- "Portland, Me.", Phelps' Hundred Cities and Large Towns of America, New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853, OCLC 2503582
- S.B. Beckett (1856). Portland Directory. Brown Thurston, printer.
- Joseph H. Bragdon (1857), "Portland", Seaboard towns: or, Traveller's guide book from Boston to Portland, Newburyport, Mass.: Moulton & Clark, OCLC 3443773
- S.B. Beckett (1858), Portland Directory, Brown Thurston, printer, OL 23414268M
- Guide book for Portland and vicinity, Portland, Me.: B. Thurston and J. F. Richardson, 1859, OCLC 29977128, OL 6904686M
- William Willis. The history of Portland, from 1632 to 1864, 2nd ed. Portland: Bailey & Noyes, 1865
- John Neal (1874), Portland illustrated, Portland, Me: W. S. Jones, OCLC 7153525, OL 6904688M
- Edward H. Elwell (1876), Portland and Vicinity, Portland, Me: Loring, Short, & Harmon, and W.S. Jones, OCLC 332651, OL 7146626M
- "Portland and its environs", New England: a handbook for travelers (7th ed.), Boston, Mass: James R. Osgood, 1880
- Charter and Ordinances of the City of Portland, Portland: Dresser, McLellan & Company, 1881, OL 7125811M
- Joseph Sabin, ed. (1885). "Portland, Maine". Bibliotheca Americana. 15. New York. OCLC 13972268.
- J.T. Hull, ed. (1886), Centennial celebration: an account of the municipal celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town of Portland, July 4th, 5th and 6th, 1886, Portland: Printed by Owen, Strout & company, OCLC 7566292, OL 6981201M
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- "City of Portland". Maine register or state year-book and legislative manual. Portland, ME: G.M. Donham. 1891.
- George F. Bacon (1891), Portland: its representative business men and its points of interest, Newark, N.J: Glenwood Publishing Company, OCLC 8015123, OL 6904683M
- Charles Bancroft Gillespie (1899), Portland past and present (Souvenir ed.), Portland, Me: Evening Express Publishing Co., OCLC 5630912, OL 177491M
- Published in the 20th century
- "Portland", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- Directory of Portland, Portland Directory Co., 1912, OL 22890122M
- "Portland", Handbook of New England, Boston: Porter E. Sargent, 1916, OCLC 16726464
- Federal Writers' Project (1940), Portland City Guide, American Guide Series, Portland: Forest City Printing Company, OCLC 2291042, OL 7063149M
- Robertson, Edwin B. (1982). Remember the Portland, Maine, Trolleys. Robertson Books.
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