Keep Portland weird!! (Ooops, wrong Portland...)
Greetings from Maine. Portland is a nice little city perched on the coast. Maine seems to be known for two things: lighthouses and lobster rolls. :)
I’ll be here for a week or so.
Some photos from an afternoon spent walking around in Portland.
Downtown Portland
Civil War monument
City Hall
Deering Oaks Park
The Observatory. Built in 1807, it was used to watch out for ships entering the harbor. It is the only remaining tower of its type.
Portland harbor
East Promenade, a park that runs along the shore
One of two lighthouses in the harbor
Fort Gorges. It was begun in 1858, continued construction during the Civil War, but was already obsolete and was abandoned.
One of the masts from the WW2 heavy cruiser USS “Portland”
A deck gun from the USS “Maine”, whose explosion in Havana Harbor in 1898 started the Spanish-American War
A rifled Civil War cannon from Fort Allen, part of the landward defenses of Portland
Sailboat out in the harbor
The gravesite of 21 American soldiers captured in Canada during the War of 1812. They died while being taken to Boston as part of a prisoner exchange, and were buried here.