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    2795 St. John Street is a street in Portland, Maine, United States. It runs for around 1.34 miles (2.16 km) from Brighton Avenue (part of Maine State...
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    station in the Libbytown neighborhood of Portland, Maine, which operated from 1888 to 1960. Located on St. John Street, it was demolished in 1961 and is now...
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    259981 Congress Street is the main street in Portland, Maine. Around 5.77 miles (9.29 km) long, it stretches from County Road, Portland's southwestern border...
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    65979°N 70.25388°W / 43.65979; -70.25388 Federal Street is a historic downtown street in Portland, Maine, United States. It runs for around 0.56 miles (0...
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    Portland (/ˈpɔːrtlənd/ PORT-lənd) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County. Portland's population was 68...
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    St. Johns is a neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States, located in North Portland on the tip of the peninsula formed by the confluence of the...
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    The West End is a downtown neighborhood in Portland, Maine. It is located on the western side of Portland's peninsula primarily on Bramhall Hill and is...
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    The History of Portland, Maine, begins when Native Americans originally called the Portland peninsula Məkíhkanək meaning "At the fish hook" in Penobscot...
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  • Portland, Maine, is home to many neighborhoods. Portland's Arts District is based around Congress Street in downtown Portland. The District includes the...
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    Brunswick is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. Brunswick is included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town...
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  • Railway Portland Railroad Portland and Brunswick Street Railway Portland and Yarmouth Electric Railway Portland, Gray and Lewiston Railroad Portland–Lewiston...
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    a short-line railway operating between Portland, Maine, on the Atlantic Ocean, and Montreal, Quebec, on the St. Lawrence River. It crosses the Canada–US...
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    County, Maine, United States and a suburb of Portland. The population was 20,400 at the 2020 census, making it the fastest-growing city in Maine between...
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    history of Portland, Maine, began in 1842 with the arrival of the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railroad (PS&P). Most of the rail activity in Portland concerned...
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    from South Portland, Maine, east to the Canada–United States border with New Brunswick, and a Mountain Division extended west from Portland to St. Johnsbury...
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    Maine's capital is Augusta, and its most populous city is Portland, with a total population of 68,408, as of the 2020 census. The territory of Maine has...
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    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...
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    Maine Department of Transportation endorsed moving Amtrak service from this station to a location near Portland's original Union Station, on St. John...
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    Pine Point, Scarborough, Maine (c.1881), Fassett & Stevens, architects John Calvin Stevens House, 52 Bowdoin St., Portland, Maine (c.1883–84, altered) Winslow...
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    Atlantic Ocean from New Hampshire north through Portland, Brunswick, and Belfast to Calais, and then the St. Croix River and the rest of the Canada–United...
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    connected these towns to Waterville and the St. Lawrence & Atlantic Railway line between Portland, Maine, and Montreal, Quebec. The Androscoggin & Kennebec...
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  • (opened later that year), and yet further to Portland, Maine, with renaming to the Boston and Portland Railroad on April 3, 1839, opening to the New...
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    The Portland Observatory is a historic maritime signal tower at 138 Congress Street in the Munjoy Hill section of Portland, Maine. Built in 1807, it is...
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    Munjoy Hill is a neighborhood and prominent geographical feature of Portland, Maine. It is located east of downtown and south of East Deering, the neighborhood...
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    governors of Maine since statehood, serving 75 distinct terms. Four governors served multiple non-consecutive terms (Edward Kent, John Fairfield, John W. Dana...
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    known for its many outlet stores. Kittery is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area. The town's population was...
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  • (formerly Market Square or Haymarket Square) is a town square in downtown Portland, Maine, about halfway between the East Bayside and Old Port neighborhoods...
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  • St. John Catholic Church is a historic church building on St. John Street (Maine State Route 116) in St. John Plantation, Maine. Built between 1909 and...
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  • church in Portland: with notes and biographical notices: and a Summary history of Portland (1849) James Sullivan. History of Maine. 1796 Stevens, John, Cabot...
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    is a historic building and meeting space at 519 Congress Street in downtown Portland, Maine. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places...
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