South Portland, Maine

Everything South Portland is known for

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Music in South Portland

Songs About South Portland

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Artists From South Portland

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Big Blood
indie Pop: 34
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Amy Allen
pop Pop: 29
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Fire on Fire
indie Pop: 28
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Sean Michael Murray
folk Pop: 9

Rivers & Roads in Song near South Portland

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near South Portland.

Interstate 95 13 songs

History of South Portland

Lighthouses and a Last Working Waterfront RoadyGoat

Portland wraps a brick-and-cobblestone Old Port around one of the last working waterfronts in the Northeast — piers where lobster boats still unload steps from the restaurants that buy the catch. Just down the coast at Cape Elizabeth stands Portland Head Light, Maine's oldest lighthouse, first lit in 1791. George Washington commissioned it while Maine was still part of Massachusetts, and it has guarded the harbor entrance ever since, an eighty-foot white tower over the rocks. The city has reinvented itself as a food town without paving over its grit: the wharves on Commercial and Fore Streets are real, not a set. Nearby, the Lobster Shack at Two Lights has been serving rolls since 1920. It is a place where the smell of salt and diesel and butter all run together.

Portland Head Light

1787

Commissioned by George Washington in 1790, Portland Head Light is the oldest lighthouse in Maine and among the oldest in the United States.

Wadsworth-Longfellow House - Portland

1785

The Wadsworth-Longfellow House, built in 1785, was the childhood home of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and is the oldest standing structure on the Portland peninsula.

Portland's Old Port District

1866

On July 4, 1866, a firecracker sparked a blaze that destroyed 1,500 buildings and left 10,000 people homeless, leveling half of Portland's commercial district.

Victoria Mansion

1858

Built between 1858 and 1860 for hotelier Ruggles Sylvester Morse, Victoria Mansion is considered one of the finest surviving examples of pre-Civil War residential architecture in America.

Merrill Auditorium & Kotzschmar Organ - Portland

1912

Merrill Auditorium in Portland City Hall houses the Kotzschmar Memorial Organ, one of only two municipal organs in the U.S. still in use, with 6,860 pipes.

Fort Williams Park - Cape Elizabeth

1872

Fort Williams served as a coastal defense installation from 1872 to 1964, protecting Portland Harbor through the Spanish-American War, both World Wars, and the early Cold War.

Things to Do in South Portland

quirky 11.6 mi away
Desert of Maine

A genuine sand desert in Maine caused by poor farming practices. Glacial silt dunes in the forest.

Everything Near South Portland

53 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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