Portland 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. The Greater Portland metropolitan area has a population of approximately 550,000 people. Historically tied to commercial shipping, the marine economy, and light industry, Portland's economy in the 21st century relies mostly on the service sector. The Port of Portland is the second-largest tonnage seaport in the New England area as of 2019.
The Time and Temperature Building, originally known as the Chapman Building, and officially 477 Congress Street, is a 14-story office building on Congress Street in downtown Portland, Maine. The building, which replaced Preble House, is named after a large three-sided four-element eggcrate display screen on the roof that flashes the local time and temperature. It was built in 1924 as a 12-story building, with Maine's first indoor shopping center on its ground floor. It sits across Preble Street from the 10-story Fidelity Trust Building. Until the 1970s, these buildings were Portland's only skyscrapers.
Yarmouth is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States, twelve miles north of the state's largest city, Portland. When originally settled in 1636, as North Yarmouth, it was part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and remained part of its subsequent incarnations for 213 years. In 1849, twenty-nine years after Maine's admittance to the Union as the twenty-third state, it was incorporated as the Town of Yarmouth.
The historical buildings and structures of Yarmouth, Maine, represent a variety of building styles and usages, largely based on its past as home to almost sixty mills over a period of roughly 250 years. These mills include that of grain, lumber, pulp and cotton. Additionally, almost three hundred vessels were launched by Yarmouth's shipyards in the century between 1790 and 1890, and the homes of master shipwrights and ship captains can still be found throughout the town.
Sparhawk Mill is a former cotton mill on Bridge Street in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. Built in 1840 and made of brick, it is home today to several businesses. The mill stands, just east of the town's Second Falls, on the site of several previous mill buildings, the earliest of which was a wooden mill dating to 1817.
Christian Hayes is a chef and restaurateur from Portland, Maine, United States. Between 2019 and 2024, he was the owner and executive chef at The Garrison, a restaurant in Yarmouth, Maine. He was the winner of Food Network's Chopped episode "Pork on the Brain" in March 2018.
Down-East Village Restaurant & Motel was a business that existed in Yarmouth, Maine, from 1950 to 2011. It was the second motel built in Maine, and eventually became the oldest in operation.
William Hutchinson Rowe was an American author and historian who lived in Yarmouth, Maine. The town's elementary school, built the year he died, is now named for him. In 1937, he published Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636–1936: A History, covering three centuries of the town's past. As of the early 21st century, it was still in print.
Lorenzo L. Shaw, commonly known as L. L. Shaw, was an American businessman who was active in coastal North Yarmouth, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. He was the co-founder of Freeman, Shaw & Co., a cotton mill, and of Pumgustuk Water Company.
Forest Paper Company was a pulp and paper mill on the Royal River in Yarmouth, Maine, United States, which was in business between 1874 and 1923. It was the first of its kind in New England. In 1909, it was the largest such mill in the world, employing 275 people. It produced 80 tons of poplar pulp each day.
Main Street is a historic street in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It is part of the 18-mile-long (29 km) State Route 115 (SR 115), the eastern terminus of which is in Yarmouth at the intersection of Marina Road and Lafayette Street (SR 88), at Yarmouth Harbor in the town's Lower Falls neighborhood. Main Street's western terminus is a merging with Walnut Hill Road in North Yarmouth, at which point SR 115 continues west. There are three distinct sections of Main Street : Lower Falls, Brickyard Hollow and Upper Village.
Old Baptist Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. Dating to the late 17th century, it stands on Hillside Street, adjoining the North Yarmouth and Freeport Baptist Meetinghouse, a National Register of Historic Places property, on its southern side. It is the only burial site in the town attached to an extant church building.
Brick Store is the colloquial name given to a historic three-unit building in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. Located at 357 Main Street, near its junction with Elm Street in the town's Upper Village, the building was completed in 1862. It has been the home to several business.
Elm Street is a prominent street in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It runs for about 2.7 miles (4.3 km) from North Road in the north to Portland Street in the south. The street's addresses are split between "West Elm Street" and "East Elm Street", the transition occurring at Main Street in the Upper Village. Several of its buildings are homes dating to the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Portland Street is a historic street in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It runs for about 1.25 miles (2.01 km) from the town's Main Street, State Route 115, in the north to its merge with Middle Road in the south. It is so named because it leads to Portland, the state's largest city, after linking up with State Route 9 in Falmouth, Maine.
108 Main Street is a historic three-storey building in the Lower Falls area of Yarmouth, Maine.
Ammi Storer was an American merchant. He was prominent in today's Yarmouth, Maine, where a street is now named for him. He also worked in Boston, Massachusetts.
Brickyard Hollow is the central section of Main Street in Yarmouth, Maine, located between the Upper Village to the northwest and Lower Falls to the southeast. It is named for the brick-making business that was located across the street from the Masonic Hall at 189 Main Street, beneath the U.S. Route 1 overpass, which was built in the 1870s.
Upper Village is the colloquial name for the western end of Main Street in Yarmouth, Maine, centered around its intersection with Elm Street. It is also known as the Corner.
Lower Falls is the colloquial name for the eastern end of Main Street, and part of East Main Street, in Yarmouth, Maine, centered around Main Street's intersection with Portland Street. It is also known as Falls Village or The Falls.
