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Downtown Portland waterfront area between Hawthorne bridge and Morrison bridge.
Fuji g617, 45 seconds
Another photo from my visit to the dam last February 27. I posted a color version of this photo a year ago.
One of the great vintage painted signs on the Portland Outdoor Store building.
P.S. Sarcastic thanks to whoever thought they were "adding" to this piece of art by tagging it...
Portland Head Light, is a historic lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The light station sits on a head of land at the entrance of the primary shipping channel into Portland Harbor, which is within Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine. Completed in 1791, it is the oldest lighthouse in the state of Maine. The light station is automated, and the tower, beacon, and foghorn are maintained by the United States Coast Guard, while the former lighthouse keepers' house is a maritime museum within Fort Williams Park.
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A panorama of Portland, with Mt. Adams and Mt. Hood in the background, taken from the upper tram terminal at OHSU. Courtesy of autostitch. Best viewed large.
I think if there's any port in the US that I find to be most interesting it's probably Portland, ME. So rich with history and beauty. I love the area that surrounds the dock. Heavily populated with all types of birds and a very interesting area that was left intact is the decaying remains of what had been docks.
My little sparrows were enjoying the rose hips along the dock. Once again, I'll be off and on as I think I said a couple of days ago. Really, this time I mean it. Got to go bird hunting.
TriMet, formally known as the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon, is a public agency that operates mass transit in a region that spans most of the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon.
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The Portland Head Light is the oldest lighthouse in the state of Maine. The original tower was lit by whale oil lamps on January 10, 1791. It sits on a head of land at the entrance of the primary shipping channel into Portland Harbor. The light station is now automated, and the tower, beacon, and foghorn are maintained by the United States Coast Guard, while the former lighthouse keepers' house is a maritime museum. [Source: Wikipedia]
Portland, Oregon.
This charming and elegant courtyard and entryway are obscured by a tall fence that incorporates visual barriers that greatly obstruct the view from the sidewalk. I captured this image from between the bars.
For most of this apartment building's history there was no need to separate the courtyard from the sidewalk. Today it is essential to keep out the homeless, the addicted, the mentally ill and the criminal element.
Empire, 575 Congress Street, Portland, Maine. A Chinese restaurant with locally sourced Chinese dishes and dim sum in a unique space topped by an upstairs music and event hall.
PORTLAND, OREGON - JANUARY 10: A man dressed like the iconic painter Bob Ross paints people in inflatable frog costumes, while protesting in front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE facility on January 10, 2026 in Portland, Oregon. Portland residents have been demonstrating following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good on January 7th in Minneapolis as well as the shooting of two individuals in Portland on January 8th by US Border Patrol. (Photo by Natalie Behring/Getty Images)
This was another train I did when I was living in Portland, Oregon in 2007.
This time I used the name FEAR as a way to describe the portland atmosphere.
I did this in about 15 mintues and It was raining while I was doing it.
If you look close you can see the roller paint dripping off from the rain.
The fine bay of Portland and nearby Cape Bridgewater were indirectly named by Captain Grant in 1800 on the Brig the Lady Nelson when he explored this part of the coast a year or so before Matthew Flinders and Nicholas Baudin. James Grant was receiving his orders from the Duke of Portland and so Governor King in Sydney named the bay Portland after looking at Grant’s maps. Nicholas Baudin, the French explorer also named the area and called it Terra Bonaparte. After Major Thomas Mitchell’s explorations in 1836 his Australia Felix region became known as the Western Districts (of NSW). From 1803 some American whalers established summer whaling camps along Portland Bay but there was no permanent white settlement until Edward Henty arrived here from Launceston in November 1834. His brother Francis arrived to settle in December 1834. Thus began the white settlement of Victoria almost a year before Fawkner and Batman settled on Port Phillip Bay. (John Fawkner and John Batman also moved from Launceston because of the land shortages there with Fawkner settling in August 1835 near Hobsons Bay and Batman in June 1835 near the Yarra although he personally did not settle until April 1836.)
Edward Henty landed with 13 cattle, 4 bullocks, 5 pigs, 2 turkeys, vines, plants, seed, apple and pear trees. Francis arrived with dairy cows and Merino sheep. In 1836 Major Mitchell called in to the Henty’s property where Portland now stands. Henty had already explored inland by then and he had discovered Darlots Creek and Lake Condah. Three of Henty’s pastoral runs were at what became the town of Merino. The Hentys also earnt income from whaling but Edward did not even begin any whaling until 1836. Edward built his first house on what is not Bentinck Street. This was swept away when the town was surveyed in 1840 by Charles Tyers the government surveyor. By this time Edward and Francis had been joined by their other brothers Richard and John. It as a Henty son (Richard) who was the first white male born in Victoria and Edward Henty was the first to move inland in Victoria when he moved to near Merino in 1837. But many now assert that the first white settlement (not permanent or farming or pastoral settlement) in Victoria was by William Dutton with his fishery (sealing) and whaling station near Portland in 1833. Dutton had camped here in a temporary house for summer months since 1828. He also had whaling camps on Kangaroo Island. She still did not spent all the year at Portland but his whaling camp was a permanent structure. Dutton also had early whaling camps at Port Fairy. When Edward Henty arrived in November 1834 Dutton was already there and assisted Henty to get established. But does this Dutton claim really detract from Edward Henty’s claim to be the first permanent white settler on the land in Victoria?
The Henty brothers had illegally squatted on land and despite having 60 acres under crop, sheep grazing at Merino, two houses in both Portland and at Merino and 53 whites living on the land (46 males including employees and 7 females) Governor Gipps of Sydney was not impressed. The Henty brothers claimed compensation for their development of the land and a grant of some of the land. Thus began many years of legal battles with the government and the Henty brothers. Gipps sent Police to Portland to remove Henty from the land but this never happened. In 1843 the government softened and gave a grant of 83 acres at £2 per acre; town acres at £100 per acre; and compensation of £118 for their buildings, including the house which was destroyed to create Bentinck Street. The Henty brothers declined this offer and the dispute continued. Eventually the Henty brothers did get legal leases and they purchased more freehold land. Merino Downs station is still in the hands of Henty descendants.
Government land in Portland was sold in 1840 with 70 town blocks begin purchased immediately and many surrounding “suburban” blocks. Pastoral leases for inland areas were authorised from 1839. By 1842 the town had a temporary Presbyterian, Anglican and Wesleyan Methodist churches, a cemetery, a newspaper, a school house, hotels ( the Commercial Inn, the Portland Hotel, the Portland Inn and the Steam Packet Inn), a jetty and commercial enterprises. Customs duties were taken on the port trade. The main street along the foreshore Bentinck Street was named after the family name of the Dukes of Portland. The Customs House was completed in 1850; the Court House was built 1845; the Catholic Church 1848; the Presbyterian Church 1849; the Botanical Gardens began 1854; the Anglican Church 1856; a tramway to Heywood opened 1860; the Town Hall opened 1865 and a new Wesleyan Church opened 1865. In terms of population Portland grew quickly with around 1,200 residents in 1851 and around 3,000 by 1854. Today Portland has 10,700 residents.