Timeline of Portland, Maine

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Portland, Maine, United States, from its settling in 1633 to the present day.

17th century

• 1632 - Casco settled.
• 1658 - Settlement renamed "Falmouth." ^[1]
• 1659 - George Munjoy settled what became Munjoy Hill. ^[2]
• 1668 - Eastern Cemetery established.
• 1676 - Village sacked by the Wampanoag during King Philip's War.
• 1690 - Battle of Fort Loyal.

18th century

• 1718 - Town of Falmouth established. ^[3]
• 1740 - First Parish Church built. ^[3]
• 1763 - Falmouth Library Society organized.
• 1764 - Population: about 2,000. ^[1]
• 1768
  • Portland Fire Department formed.
  • Portland Farmers' Market established.
• 1775
  • Thompson's War ^[4]
  • Town burned by British. ^[3]
• 1785 - Falmouth Gazette newspaper begins publication. ^[5]
• 1785/1786 - Peleg Wadsworth built what became known as the Wadsworth-Longfellow House. ^[3]
• 1786 - Falmouth renamed "Portland." ^[6]
• 1790
  • Gazette of Maine newspaper began publication. ^[7]
  • Population: 2,240. ^[8]
  • Lighthouse built. ^[9]
• 1791 - 159–161 Fore Street, the 1807 birthplace of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, built. ^[10]
• 1794 - Fort Sumner built.
• 1796 - Portland Marine Society incorporated. ^[11]

19th century

Portland Observatory

• 1800 - Population: 3,704. ^[12]
• 1803
  • Eastern Argus newspaper began publication. ^[13]
  • United States Hotel built in Haymarket Square (today's Monument Square).
• 1805 - Portland Benevolent Society incorporated. ^[11]
• 1806 - Gorham Academy built.
• 1807
  • Portland Observatory built. ^[3]
  • Birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. ^[3]
• Queen's Hospital opened (later renamed Northern Light Mercy)
• 1819 - State constitutional convention held. ^[14]
• 1820
  • Portland became the capital of the State of Maine. ^[3]
  • Maine Council of Royal Masters instituted. ^[11]
  • Population: 8,581. ^[8]
• 1821
  • High School established.
  • Maine Mineralogical Society established. ^[11]
  • Maine Encampment of Knight Templars established. ^[11]
• 1822 - Maine Historical Society founded.

First Parish Church

• 1825
  • First Parish Church built.
  • Market (or Haymarket) House built Haymarket Square.
• 1826 - Portland Athenaeum founded.
• 1827 - John Neal opened the first public gymnasium in the U.S. founded by an American in the Market House. ^[15]
• 1828
  • Maine's first literary periodical, The Yankee , founded by John Neal. ^[16]
  • Abyssinian Meeting House established.
  • Mariner's Church built.
• 1829
  • Theatre built on Union Street. ^{[17] [18]}
  • Western Cemetery established.
• 1830 - Population - 12,598. ^[8]
• 1831 - Westbrook Seminary chartered. ^[3]
• 1832
  • State capital moved from Portland to Augusta.
  • City of Portland chartered. ^[3]
  • Cumberland and Oxford Canal opened bringing interior trade to Portland harbor from Long Lake. ^[19]

• 

  Original City Hall

  1833 - Market House converted into Portland's first City Hall.
• 1834 - Sylvester Graham Riot at the Temple Street Church. ^[20]
• 1836 - Western Promenade laid out. ^[17]
• 1839 - B. Thurston & Co. publishers established. ^[21]
• 1843
  • Railway service began between Boston and Portland. ^[22]
  • Portland Society of Natural History organized. ^[3]
• 1844 - Portland Steam Packet Company organized. ^[23]
• 1845 - The Pleasure Boat newspaper began publication. ^[24]
• 1846 - Portland Company established to build railway locomotives. ^[23]
• 1849 - Portland Gas Light Co. incorporated. ^[25]
• 1850
  • Population: 20,815. ^[12]
• 1851 - Kennebec and Portland Railroad began operating. ^[26]
• 1852 - Commercial Street completed on land reclaimed from the Fore River estuary. ^[27]
• 1853
  • Grand Trunk Railway to Montreal began operating.
  • Portland Board of Trade established. ^[28]
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland established.

Baxter Family Monument at Evergreen Cemetery

• 1855
  • Portland Rum Riot.
  • Evergreen Cemetery established.
  • United States Marine Hospital established. ^[1]
• 1856 - Chestnut Street Methodist Church built.
• 1859
  • Forest City Cemetery established.
  • Mechanics' Hall completed.

Victoria Mansion

• 1860
  • Victoria Mansion built.
  • Portland Railroad Company established. ^[29]
• 1862
  • Portland Daily Press newspaper began publication. ^[7]
  • Maine Central Railroad Company began operations.
  • Second iteration of City Hall built on Congress Street.
  • Portland Water Company established.
• 1863
  • Battle of Portland Harbor.
  • Portland street car service began. ^[30]
  • Galt wharf grain elevator completed for export of Canadian wheat. ^[31]

"Bird's Eye View of the City of Portland," 1876

• 1865 - Fort Gorges completed. ^[32]
• 1866
  • Fire. ^[3]
  • Lincoln Park established.
• 1867
  • Portland Institute and Public Library founded. ^[33]
  • First Baptist Church built.
  • Water company established to supply the city from Sebago Lake. ^[1]
• 1868 - Third City Hall, St. Paul's Church and Rectory and the Falmouth Hotel built.
• 1869
  • Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception construction completed. ^[1]
  • Portland Yacht Club established.
• 1870 - Cumberland and Oxford Canal abandoned when Portland and Ogdensburg Railroad reached Sebago Lake. ^[34]

• 

  United States Custom House

  1872 - U.S. Customhouse built.
• 1874
  • Deering High School established.
  • Maine Medical Center established.
• 1875
  • Southworth Press established. ^[35]
  • The Cumberland Club established.
• 1878 - University of Southern Maine established.

• 

  Deering Oaks Park

  1879 - Deering Oaks Park established.
• 1881 - Young People's Society of Christian Endeavour founded by Francis Edward Clark. ^{[36] [3]}
• 1882
  • Portland Society of Art founded.
  • Evening Express newspaper begins publication.
• 1884 - Maine Genealogical Society organized.
• 1886
  • Portland centennial. ^[37]
  • The Portland Club established.

• 

  Union Station

  1888
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Monument unveiled at Longfellow Square in West End. ^[3]
  • First City Hall demolished.
  • Union Station built.
• 1890 - Population: 36,425. ^{[8] [3]}
• 1891
  • Portland Soldiers and Sailors Monument, erected on the site of the first City Hall, dedicated in Monument Square.
  • Maine Eye and Ear Infirmary building completed.
• 1892 - Six Towns Times established.
• 1895 - State of Maine Armory building completed.
• 1897
  • Jefferson Theatre opened. ^[17]
  • Maine Music Festival began. ^[3]
  • St. Lawrence Church and Williston-West Church built.
• 1898 - Waynflete School established.
• 1899
  • Deering became part of Portland. ^[3]
  • Portland Camera Club formed. ^{[38] [39]}
• 1900 - Population: 50,145. ^[3]

20th century

• 1901 - New England Elevator Company built the largest grain elevator on the Atlantic coast. ^[40]
• 1902 - First Amato's opened on India Street. ^[41]

• 

  Grand Trunk Railway Station

  1906
  • Portland Company ceased building railway locomotives. ^[42]
  • Grand Trunk Railway Station built on India Street.
• 1908
  • Portland Society of Arts and Crafts organized. ^[43]
  • City Hall destroyed by fire.

• 

  City Hall

  1909
  • The fourth and current City Hall built. ^[1]
  • Children's Hospital built at 68 High Street.
• 1910
  • Memorial statue of Thomas Brackett Reed unveiled on the Western Promenade. ^[44]
  • Cumberland County Courthouse built.
  • Population: 58,571. ^[3]
• 1911
  • L. D. M. Sweat Memorial Art Museum dedicated. ^[45]
  • Portland Terminal Company formed.
  • Masonic Temple built.
  • Edward T. Gignoux United States Courthouse built.
• 1912
  • Merrill Auditorium built.
  • Eastern Promenade laid out according to design by Olmsted Brothers. ^[46]
• 1913
  • State of Maine Express began direct Pullman railway service from major U.S. cities to Portland. ^[47]
  • Historical pageant took place on Eastern Promenade. ^[48]
  • B&M Baked Beans factory built.
• 1914
  • Portland–Lewiston Interurban service began between Portland and Lewiston. ^[30]
  • Green Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church, ^[49] Portland Exposition Building and Woodfords Club built.
• 1916 - Million Dollar Bridge opened.

• 

  Baxter Boulevard

  1917
  • Baxter Boulevard established at Back Cove.
  • Cheverus High School established.
  • Oakhurst Dairy established.
• 1919
  • Portland designated eastern end of the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway. ^[50]
  • Casco Bay Lines established.
• 1921 - Etz Chaim Synagogue built.
• 1923
  • Portland Symphony Orchestra and Children's Theatre of Portland established.
  • Press Herald Building completed.
  • Canadian National Railway began diverting export traffic from Portland to Canadian Maritime ports. ^[51]
• 1924
  • Maine State Pier and Chapman Building constructed.
  • Longfellow Garden Club organized. ^[52]
• 1925 - Central Fire Station built on part of Lincoln Park.
• 1926 - U.S. Route 1 linked Portland to the United States highway system. ^[53]
• 1927 - Eastland Hotel opened.
• 1928 - James E. Barlow hired as second City Manager.
• 1929 - State Theatre opened.
• 1930
  • The Gull began international Pullman train service through Portland from the Maritimes. ^[54]

  • 

    Portland International Jetport

    Fitzpatrick Stadium built.
• 1931 - Portland-Westbrook Municipal Airport (later Portland International Jetport) opened.
• 1932 - Main Post Office building completed.
• 1933
  • End of interurban service from Portland to surrounding communities. ^[30]
• 1934 - Flying Yankee began streamliner service to Portland. ^[55]
• 1936 - The Village Cafe opened on Newbury Street. It remained in business for 71 years.
• 1940 - East Wind began summer passenger train service to Portland for vacationers from major eastern cities. ^[56]
• 1941
  • Portland–Montreal Pipe Line completed. ^[57]
  • Portland became United States Navy destroyer base Sail during the Battle of the Atlantic. ^[58]
  • Victoria Mansion museum opened.
  • Portland street car system dismantled. ^[30]
• 1942 - Battery Steele built.
• 1944 - A-26 Invader crashed near Portland airport, Maine's worst aircraft accident. ^[59]
• 1946 - Baxter Woods municipal forest established. ^[60]
• 1947 - Maine Turnpike connected Portland to what became the Interstate Highway System. ^[61]
• 1950 - Population: 77,634. ^[8]
• 1953 - WCSH begins broadcasting.
• 1954
  • WMTW begins broadcasting.

  • 

    Tukey's Bridge

    Original Veterans Memorial Bridge built.
• 1960 - Tukey's Bridge built.
• 1961
  • Demolition of Union Station ended daily passenger train service to Portland. ^[62]
  • Greyhound bus station built on St. John Street. ^[63]
• 1963 - Falmouth Hotel demolished.
• 1964 - Greater Portland Landmarks preservation group formed. ^[64]
• 1965
  • Kennedy Park housing built.
  • United States Hotel demolished in Monument Square.
• 1966
  • Greater Portland Transit District established.
  • Grand Trunk Railway Station demolished.

One Monument Square

• 1967
  • Summer weekend passenger train service to Portland ended. ^[65]
  • Franklin Street demolished, to be replaced by Franklin Arterial. ^[66]
• 1969
  • One Monument Square opened on the former site of the United States Hotel.
  • Franklin Towers completed, becoming Maine's tallest residential building.
  • Portland Rugby Football Club established.
• 1970 - University of Southern Maine's Portland campus established.
• 1971
  • The Canal Bank Plaza is built on the site of the former Falmouth Hotel.
  • Construction of Interstate 295 through Portland was completed. ^[67]
• 1973
  • Old Port Festival began.
  • WMPG begins broadcasting.
  • Salt Institute for Documentary Studies founded.
• 1974
  • The Hollow Reed restaurant in the Old Port was founded. ^[68]
  • Profile Theatre established (later renamed Portland Stage Company).
• 1975 - Portland Pirates ice hockey team established.
• 1976 - Children's Museum of Maine founded.

• 

  Cumberland County Civic Center

  1977
  • Cumberland County Civic Center built.
  • American Hockey League iteration of the Maine Mariners ice-hockey team established.
• 1978 - Portland Stage Company active.

• 

  East End Treatment Plant

  1979 - East End Treatment Plant established. ^[69]
• 1983 - Portland Museum of Art expanded into the Charles Shipman Payson Building.
• 1984
  • Sister city relationship established with Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan. ^[70]
  • Portland Ice Arena opened.
• 1985 - Portland Monthly magazine began publication.
• 1988
  • Maine Island Trail Association established.
  • Gritty McDuff's, considered Maine's first brewpub, opens on Fore Street. ^[71]
• 1989 - East Coast Hockey League iteration of the Maine Mariners ice-hockey team established.
• 1992 - AHL Maine Mariners became defunct.
• 1993
  • Portland Pirates ice hockey team formed.
  • Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum opened.
  • Children's Museum moved to its third home, beside the Portland Museum of Art on Free Street. ^[72]

• 

  Hadlock Field

  1994
  • Portland Chamber Music Festival began.
  • PORTopera founded.
  • Portland Sea Dogs minor-league baseball team established; Hadlock Field opened.
  • Cumberland County Jail built.
• 1996
  • Westbrook College merged with the University of New England, later assuming the name of the latter. ^[73]
  • Portland bus terminal opened at Thompson's Point.
• 1997
  • Casco Bay Bridge opens.
  • City website went online (approximate date). ^{[74] [ chronology citation needed ]}

21st century

Downeaster at Portland Transportation Center

• 2000 - First Friday Art Walk established. ^[75]
• 2001
  • Portland Transportation Center completed, incorporating a train station beside the bus station.
  • Downeaster restored passenger train service to Portland. ^[76]
• 2003 - Sister city relationship established with Mytilene, Greece. ^[70]
• 2006 - Maine Roller Derby and Portland Society of Architects founded. ^[77]
• 2008 - Ocean Gateway International Marine Passenger Terminal opened.
• 2009
  • Port City Music Hall opened. ^[78]
  • Congress Street designated an historic district. ^[79]
  • Maine Celtics basketball team established.

    

    201 Federal Street

• 2010
  • State Theatre reopened.
  • Population: 66,194 city; ^[8] 514,098 metro.
• New Veterans Memorial Bridge completed.
• 2014 - The fourth and current iteration of the Martin's Point Bridge is completed.
• 2016
  • Portland Pirates ice hockey team became defunct.
  • First departure from International Marine Terminal. ^[80]
• 2021- Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine opened at Thompson's Point. ^[72]
• 2023
  • Portland Hearts of Pine soccer team established.
  • 201 Federal Street completed, surpassed Franklin Towers as Maine's tallest residential building.
• 2024 - Record tide level of the Fore River causes severe flooding. ^[81]

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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Published in the 20th century

• "Portland (Maine)"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 22 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 120.
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External links

• Historic images related to Portland (via Maine Memory Network)
• "Timeline: Selected Events in Maine History". Maine Memory Network. Maine Historical Society.
• John French. "Portland Maine History 1786 to Present" – via Facebook.
• Works related to Portland, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).