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Ellen Martin Henrotin, social reformer; born in Portland, Maine; Augusta Merrill Hunt (1842-1932), philanthropist, suffragist, temperance leader; lived in Portland her entire life; Lois Galgay Reckitt (born 1944), executive director of Family Crisis Services, Portland, Maine
Commercial Street is a downtown street in the Old Port of Portland, Maine, United States.It is part of U.S. Route 1A. [1] It became the Old Port's waterfront in the early 20th century, replacing Fore Street, after land was reclaimed from the waters of Casco Bay and the Fore River.
Jews arrived in Portland, Maine as early as 1866. [9] Maine, a heavily rural state, attracted relatively few Jews during the mid-1800s and was home to only one city, Portland, whose estimated Jewish population in 1878 exceeded one hundred.
By the 1820s the area was Portland's second seaport via the Back Cove’s ship channel. Much of the debris from the great Portland fire of 1866 was deposited into Back Cove, significantly increasing the size of Bayside and East Bayside. Maps produced around 1900 show an extension of the shoreline out to Marginal Way and beyond.
In 1928, the pope renamed the Diocese of Portland as the Diocese of Portland in Maine. This action was to avoid confusion with the newly erected Archdiocese of Portland in Portland, Oregon. [19] During his five-year tenure in Portland, Murray established thirty new parishes and a diocesan weekly newspaper, Church World, in 1930.
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Deering High School (DHS) is a public high school located on Stevens Avenue in Portland, Maine, United States. The school is part of the Portland Public Schools district. It is one of the three public high schools located in Portland, the others being Portland High School and Casco Bay High School. Along with Portland High, enrollment to ...
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