Portland is organized into neighborhoods generally recognized by residents,[28] but they have no legal or political authority. In 2010, Maine Medical Center's Hannaford Center for Safety, Innovation, and Simulation opened at the Brighton campus. The Spaniards, led by Gmez, were the first Europeans to make landfall in what is now Maine, followed by the Frenchman Samuel de Champlain in 1605. Add pils to the filters list to remove products, extras list to add something extra Aside from the main city council, there is also an elected school board for the Portland Public School system. In 1853, upon completion of the Grand Trunk Railway to Montreal, Portland became the primary ice-free winter seaport for Canadian exports. 38.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.2% had someone living alone who was 65years of age or older. [33] Bangor's worst ice jam floods occurred in 1846 and 1902. The Press Herald Building at 390 Congress Street is strategically located across Congress Street from Portland City Hall and was built in 1923 and then expanded in 1948 for use as the newspaper's headquarters. [63] As of 2014 Bangor had the third highest rate of property crime in Maine.[64]. The reason for the choice of name is disputed. At 175 feet (53 meters),[52] it is Portland's (as well as Maine's) tallest building. Though no people died and the city recovered quickly, the 1846 and 1902 ice jam floods were economically devastating, according to the Army Corps analysis. In the 2012 presidential election, Barack Obama received 5,192 of the votes to Mitt Romney's 3,339. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake occurred at a depth of 6.6km (4.1 miles). The GPS Portland Phoenix soccer teams plays in USL League Two. The city installed gas lights in 1859. On March 8, 1899, Portland annexed the neighboring city of Deering. Augusta's climate is classified as a humid continental climate (Kppen: Dfb). Set among rolling hills and numerous lakes, the town is home to Range Ponds State Park, which includes hiking trails and a pristine freshwater beach.Poland is also a historic resort area. [7][8][9] It developed into a shipbuilding center, producing hundreds of three, four and five masted schooners. [90], In 2015, Marcy's Diner made international headlines following a spat between the then-cook-owner and a patron over the latter's screaming child.[93]. Join the discussion about your favorite team! The office of mayor is a four-year position that earns a salary of 150% of the city's median income. Portland became a 20th-century rail hub as five additional rail lines merged into Portland Terminal Company in 1911. These rail lines also facilitated movement of returning Canadian troops from the First World War in 1919. Winters are cold and snowy whereas summers are mild to warm with frequent rainfall. The racial makeup of the city was 85.0% White (83.6% non-Hispanic White alone), down from 96.6% in 1990,[37] 7.1% African American, 0.5% Native American, 3.5% Asian, 1.2% from other races, and 2.7% from two or more races. Bangor was near the lands disputed during the Aroostook War, a boundary dispute with Britain in 18381839. For historic Bangor trolley service see Bangor Railway and Electric Company. For the first 55 years the line was operated under lease by the MEC as its Belfast Branch but its operation reverted to the B&ML on January 1, 1926, when the lease was terminated by the larger road. The median age in the city was 36.7 years. [96] The current city manager is Jon Jennings. The Mariners were three-time Calder Cup winners. The Community Connector system offers public transportation within Bangor and to adjacent towns such as Orono. The racial makeup of the city was 91.27% White, 2.59% African American, 0.47% Native American, 3.08% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 0.67% from other races, and 1.86% from two or more races. The population density was 3,029.2 people per square mile (1,169.6/km2). The smaller complex was eventually taken over by athenahealth. Passenger rail service was provided most recently by the New Brunswick Southern Railway, which in 1994 discontinued its route to Saint John, New Brunswick. [5] Portland was named after the English Isle of Portland, Dorset. Memorial Stadium is the home of the Deering High School sports teams and is located behind the school. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 58.03sqmi (150.30km2), of which 55.13sqmi (142.79km2) is land and 2.90sqmi (7.51km2) is water. SR 137 and SR 141. The ships remained there until the late 1950s, when construction of the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge disturbed the site. The average household size was 2.14 and the average family size was 2.73. In turn, the city of Portland, Oregon was named after Portland, Maine. Today, it is still used for administrative and logistical purposes by the National Guard. [26] In 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a report that showed sea level in Portland could rise by six inches by 2050, two feet by 2060 and two to six feet by 2100.[27]. [38][39] On average, there are 20 nights annually that drop to 0F (18C) or below, and 55 days where the temperature stays below freezing, including 49days from December through February. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.0% of the population. The city has also had a municipal Historic Preservation Commission since the early 1980s. [10], At 7:12 pm local time, on October 16, 2012, an earthquake originally estimated as a 4.6 magnitude then downgraded to a 4.0 struck Hollis, with its epicenter about 3 miles (5km) west of the center of town. Ten men and a sergeant garrisoned it. The average in January is -3 C (26.5 F), but the temperature drops below -18 C (0 F) for an average of 4 nights per year. Ice jams can exacerbate high flow conditions and cause acute localized flooding. 17.1% of residents were under the age of 18; 11.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 33.1% were from 25 to 44; 25.9% were from 45 to 64; and 12.6% were 65 years of age or older. The coldest month is January, with an average low of 10F (12.2C). In 1862, Camp E.D. In the late 19th century, a paper and pulp plant was constructed. WHSN is a non-commercial alternative rock station licensed to Bangor and run and operated by staff and students at the New England School of Communications on the campus of Husson University. In March of both years, a dynamic breakup of ice ran into the jam and flooded downtown Bangor. During the Civil War, Augusta was a rendezvous point for Union soldiers traveling to the front. U.S. 201 runs north-south through the city. This resort features 7,300 skiable acres, more than 330 trails, and 40 ski lifts. The street, laid out in the late 1700s, was the location of the area's commercial and industrial life. In 1929, the state legislature approved the placement of the Augusta State Airport next to the camp. [16] Situated on Belfast Bay and Penobscot Bay, Belfast is drained by the Passagassawakeag River. [88] In the 1970s and 1980s, The Hollow Reed was a notable vegetarian restaurant on Fore Street. Hollis borders the towns of Limington and Standish to the north, Buxton to the east, Dayton to the south, Lyman to the southwest and Waterboro to its west. [6], Shipbuilders became wealthy, and built the Federal, Greek Revival and Italianate mansions and civic architecture for which the city is noted, including the 1818 First Church by master-builder Samuel French, and the 1857 Custom House and Post Office by noted architect Ammi B. 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Howard Middle School Grades 68, Belfast Area High School Grades 912 (Located in Belfast), This page was last edited on 17 October 2022, at 21:29. Bangor International Airport (IATA: BGR, ICAO: KBGR) is a joint civil-military public airport 3 miles (4.8 kilometres) west of the city. [16] Bangor capitalists also owned most of the forests. [23], Bangor is located at 4448N 6848W / 44.8N 68.8W / 44.8; -68.8. Water powered mills were built along the Saco River at Hollis village, Bar Mills, Moderation Falls (opposite West Buxton), North Hollis and Bonny Eagle Falls. Young designed the Marine Hospital, the first of three local works by Supervising Architects of the U.S. Treasury Department. Portland mayor and temperance leader Neal Dow led Maine to ban alcohol sales in 1851. [65] In 184950, the Second cholera pandemic reached Bangor itself, killing 2030 within the first week,[84] 112 had died by October, 1849. Outdoor activities in the Bangor City Forest and other nearby parks, forests, and waterways include hiking, sailing, canoeing, hunting, fishing, skiing, and snowmobiling. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.2% of the population. The camp eventually became a headquarters for the Maine National Guard. Bangorians later helped transplant the Maine culture of lumbering to the Pacific Northwest, and participated directly in the Gold Rush. During King William's War, a raiding party of French and their native allies attacked and largely destroyed it again in the Battle of Fort Loyal (1690). In 2007, construction began on a $131-million casino complex in Bangor that houses, among other things, a gaming floor with about 1,000 slot machines, an off-track betting center, a seven-story hotel, and a four-level parking garage. Moosehead Lake is a deep, coldwater lake located in Piscataquis County in Northwestern Maine.It is the second-largest lake in New England, and the largest mountain lake in the eastern United States.Situated in the mostly undeveloped Longfellow Mountains, the lake is the source of the Kennebec River.Several rural Townships border the lake. It is served by US Route 1, Maine State Routes SR 3, SR 7, SR 52. [30], The University of Maine at Augusta is third-largest university in the University of Maine System.[31]. Bay Ferries signed a ten-year deal with Nova Scotia to run the ferry route, which will take about five and a half hours each way. The city council of nine members is elected by the citizens of Portland. Family and friends cleaned it up and rededicated it.[55]. )", "Census - Geography Profile: Bangor city, Maine", "Bangor, agrees with "We Are Bangor" video it's -GOR, not -GER", "The New International Encyclopdia 1st ed. Maine is 447.6 miles to New York via I-95 S. Driving between Maine and New York takes 7 hours and 24 minutes. 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[49] Since 2000, Portland has hosted a monthly art walk event that attracts more than 3,000 visitors.[50]. In 1799, it was designated as the county seat for the newly created Kennebec County. [70] Until recently, Brady's grave was unmarked. Fort Western has not had troops garrisoned there since the 1790s, but in 1828, the U.S. Government built an arsenal to protect their interests from Britain. The settlement was known by its Native American name Cushnoc (or Coussinoc or Koussinoc), meaning "head of the tide." A European and North American Railway opened through Bangor, with President Ulysses S. Grant officiating at the inauguration, but commerce never lived up to the potential. [28], Cony serves students in grades 712 from Augusta and the surrounding towns; Cony comprises Cony Middle School and Cony High School. The Maine State Legislature continued meeting in Portland, however, until the completion of the Maine State House in 1832, designed by Charles Bulfinch. [91] The Village Restaurant, an Italian restaurant in the city's East End, was in operation for 71 years, from 1936 to 2007. The city and surrounding communities are linked by 70 miles of trails, both urban and wooded, maintained by the nonprofit Portland Trails. [45] In that period, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow got his start as a poet and John Neal held a central position in leading American literature toward its great renaissance,[46][47] having founded Maine's first literary periodical, The Yankee, in 1828. Christopher Levett, an English naval captain granted 6,000 acres (2,400ha) in 1623 to found a settlement in Casco Bay. 35.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 17.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. [59], In 2012, Bangor's City Council passed an order in support of same-sex marriage in Maine. This Friday, were taking a look at Microsoft and Sonys increasingly bitter feud over Call of Duty and whether U.K. regulators are leaning toward torpedoing the Activision Blizzard deal. All NOAA, Last Map Update: Sun, Dec. 11, 2022 at 6:16:45 am EST. The Portland Farmers Market takes place Wednesdays in Monument Square, Saturdays in Deering Oaks Park (from early May to the end of November), and Saturdays at The Maine Girls Academy (from early December to the end of April). Victorian, and Colonial Revival houses. The town of Hollis was originally called Little Falls Plantation, which also encompassed all of the town of Dayton and a small part of Limington, namely the area south of the Little Ossipee River. Hollis is located within Maine School Administrative District 6. the expected highest and lowest temperature readings at any point during the year or given month) calculated based on data at said location from 1991 to 2020. [54] In May 2011, vandals spray-painted graffiti and an anti-gay slur on the memorial. Other parks and natural spaces include Payson Park, Post Office Park, Baxter Woods, Evergreen Cemetery, Western Cemetery and the Fore River Sanctuary. The city's population was 18,899 at the 2020 census, making it the tenth-most populous city in Maine, and third-least populous state capital in the United States after Montpelier, Vermont, and Pierre, South Dakota.. Located on the Kennebec River at the head of tide, it is the principal city in the Augusta-Waterville Micropolitan Statistical Area and home to the University of Maine at Augusta. 21 years later, English settlers from the Plymouth Colony settled in the area in 1628 as part of a trading post on the Kennebec River. ", "Portland's tough new ban on synthetic pesticides allows few exceptions", "City of Portland Code of Ordinances, Charter Rev. 0410104104, 0410804109, 04112, 04116, 0412204124. [6], Following the war, the seaport rebuilt and thrived. On June 2, 1855, the Portland Rum Riot occurred. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.52% of the population. The area is served by local television stations representing most of the television networks. Young. As of 2012, the Bangor Metropolitan Statistical Area (Penobscot County) ranked in the top fifth for physicians per capita nationally (74th of 381). Portland's population was 68,408 in April 2020. In 1985, the WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship changed hands for the first time outside of Puerto Rico at an IWCCW show in Bangor. Information is based on travel restrictions for travel to Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson within the United States Most visitors from USA need to provide a negative COVID-19 test result and/or quarantine to enter Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson. Today, government and post-secondary education are important businesses.[12]. Bangor arose as a lumbering boom-town in the 1830s, and a potential demographic and political rival to Portland. SR25 Business goes through southwestern Portland. The mayor presides at all meetings of the council, and is recognized ceremonially as the official head of the city. As the airport grew, the use of the camp as a training facility was no longer possible. In 2013, the City of Bangor also signed an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court calling for the federal Defense of Marriage Act to be struck down. Evidence of this is still visible in the lumber barons' elaborate Greek Revival and Victorian mansions and the 31-foot-high (9.4 m) statue of Paul Bunyan. The median age in the city was 47.2 years. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.0 males. The school board is made up in the same manner of the city council, with five district members, four at-large members and one chairman. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Portland's immediate metropolitan area ranked 147th in the nation in 2000 with a population of 243,537, while the Portland/South Portland/Biddeford metropolitan area included 487,568 total inhabitants. [5] The final syllable is pronounced gor, not ger as in Bangor, Northern Ireland, and the city of Bangor in north Wales. A bridge connecting Bangor with Brewer is named for Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the regiment's leader and one of eight Civil War soldiers from Penobscot County towns to receive the Medal of Honor. The Confederate States Navy captured several Bangor ships during the Civil War. Northeastern University was selected by technology entrepreneur David Roux to lead the institute that will include programs that will allow graduate student research. The tables below give yearly averages for snowfall at each state in the United States. Poland is a town in Androscoggin County, Maine, United States.The population was 5,906 at the 2020 census. About 4.6% of families and 6.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.3% of those under age 18 and 10.6% of those age 65 or over. A proposal to replace the defunct Nova Scotia ferry service was rejected in 2013 by the province. Annual frozen precipitation (snow) averages 69in (175cm) in the city. [35] At 11:15 am, waters began rising on the river and within 15 minutes had risen a total of 3.7 metres (12ft) flooding downtown. Located at the mouth of the Passagassawakeag River estuary on Belfast Bay and Penobscot Bay.Belfast is the county seat of Waldo County. From May 15, 2014, until October 2015, the cruise ship ferry Nova Star made daily trips to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The peninsula was settled in 1632 as a fishing and trading village named Casco. [87], In 1845, The Pleasure Boat was the earliest vegetarian publication in Maine. There were 8,565 households, out of which 24.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.1% were married couples living together, 10.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 46.2% were non-families. In 1786, the citizens of Falmouth formed a separate town in Falmouth Neck and named it Portland, after the isle off the coast of Dorset, England. They stated that the boat would be renamed The Cat[116] and that service would begin around June 15, after refitting in South Carolina. Native Americans originally called the Portland peninsula Machigonne ("Great Neck"). [5], Many of the lumber barons built elaborate Greek Revival and Victorian houses that still stand in the Broadway Historic District. It is also within the top ten in the Northeast (i.e. During the 17th century, they were on friendly terms with the English settlers in the region.[6][7]. [36], Bangor has a humid continental climate (Kppen: Dfb), with cold, snowy winters, and warm summers, and is in USDA hardiness zone 5a. The abstract aluminum sculpture "Continuity of Community" (1969) on the Bangor Waterfront, formerly in West Market Square, is by the Castine sculptor Clark Battle Fitz-Gerald. Buffalo is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New York (behind only New York City) and the seat of Erie County.It is at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the head of the Niagara River, and is across the Canadian border from Southern Ontario.With a population of 278,349 according to the 2020 census, Buffalo is the 78th-largest city in the United States. [100] There are also three students from the local high schools elected to serve on the board. [17], In addition to shipping lumber, 19th-century Bangor was the leading producer of moccasins, shipping over 100,000 pairs a year by the 1880s. The comparative lack of settlement in the forested hinterland also gave it a comparatively small home market. Many of the local businesses are family-run and well-established in the community. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 69.44sqmi (179.85km2), of which 21.31sqmi (55.19km2) is land and 48.13sqmi (124.66km2) is water. The racial makeup of the city was 97.56% White, 0.28% African American, 0.27% Native American, 0.28% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.27% from other races, and 1.33% from two or more races. Trevor Hustus is the chairman of the board. Cushnoc would remain unoccupied for the next 75 years. NWS From the early 2000s onward, many of Portland's neighborhoods have faced gentrification, causing many local residents to be "priced out" of their neighborhoods. [38] There is an average of 6.1 days annually with highs at or above 90F (32C), with the last year to have not seen such temperatures being 2014. 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